Chapter 7. Creating an IPv6 Addressing Plan
Introduction
In this chapter, weâll take advantage of the topics we learned in Chapters 4 through 6 to walk through building from scratch a couple of sample IPv6 address plans for a (thank $DEITY) fictional company.
Weâll learn effective entry points into our address plan design that depend on whether we want to focus first on the part of our plan within a site or the part of the plan between sites.
Along the way, weâll explore in depth methods for mapping the network topology into the address planâhow, thanks to the typically large size of an IPv6 address allocation, subnets identifying function and location can be derived from the available bits (bits that were in short supply in IPv4).
Finally, weâll look at some of the address planning considerations for network topologies that extend the traditional enterprise network in the form of data centers, cloud deployments, and sensor networks.
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