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Chapter 9
IPv6 Applications
9.1 Introduction
is chapter discusses some basic application-related issues that have to be taken
into consideration when migrating existing business applications to an Internet
Protocol version 6 (IPv6) networking environment.
9.2 Application Programming Interface Overview
Applications may use either Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or User Datagram
Protocol (UDP) for communicating with remote hosts on the Internet. Both are ser
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vices that work on top of the IP network protocol. TCP is a reliable “streams” service
that requires a connection establishment phase when a host is making a connection
to a remote ser ...