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20.7.1 DUAL-STACK THE SERVERS
Once you have completed these steps, you are ready to enable server
platforms with IPv6 in addition to IPv4. The applications available at the
server must also be IPv6 compatible and configured properly.
In a typical enterprise, servers should be given assigned IPv6 addresses.
Clients should autoconfigure—that feature is one of the great strengths
of IPv6. When the addressing scheme is developed, provisions should be
made to reserve consistent blocks for servers (i.e., in each ::/64 network
use the addresses 200 to 2000 for servers).
The process, then, is simple. Configure ...