Summary
In this chapter, you learned about the new Internet Control Message Protocol for IPv6 (ICMPv6) messages; the use of path Maximum Transmission Unit discovery (PMTUD) with IPv6; and the mechanisms within Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP), such as the replacement of Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) in IPv4, stateless autoconfiguration, prefix advertisement, duplicate address detection (DAD), and prefix renumbering. You now understand the impact of IPv6 on popular protocols such as Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), IPSec Authentication Header (AH), IPSec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP), and Mobile IP.
Then you read about managing neighbor entries in the router's neighbor discovery table, tuning NDP ...
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