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have been designed for use with IPv6. This chapter discusses how
internal and external routing protocols can be used with IPv6, as well
as issues of routing within a multiprotocol Internet.
15: IPv6 Quality of Service. One of the more intractable of problems with
IPv4 has been the question of how to provide different treatment to dif-
ferent packets as they are forwarded through internetworks. While an
egalitarian approach, in which all packets are treated identically, maybe
philosophically appealing, in practice network service providers need
mechanisms that can allow them to assign priority (or at least mandate
levels of service) to certain subsets of the packets they handle. Despite
many years of working the problem for IPv4, IPv6 is, ...