Book description
If your organization is gearing up for IPv6, this in-depth book provides the practical information and guidance you need to plan for, design, and implement this vastly improved protocol. System and network administrators, engineers, and network designers will learn the technical details of IPv6 features and functions, and provides options for those who need to integrate IPv6 with their current IPv4 infrastructure.
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Praise for IPv6 Essentials, Third Edition
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Why IPv6?
- 2. IPv6 Addressing
- 3. The Structure of the IPv6 Protocol
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4. ICMPv6
- General Message Format
- ICMP Error Messages
- ICMP Informational Messages
- Processing Rules
- The ICMPv6 Header in a Trace File
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Neighbor Discovery
- Router Solicitation and Router Advertisement
- Neighbor Solicitation and Neighbor Advertisement
- The ICMP Redirect Message
- Inverse Neighbor Discovery
- Neighbor Discovery Options
- Secure Neighbor Discovery
- Router Advertisement in the Trace File
- Link-Layer Address Resolution
- Neighbor Unreachability Detection
- Neighbor Cache and Destination Cache
- Neighbor Discovery and Fragmentation
- Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)
- Network Renumbering
- Path MTU Discovery
- Multicast Listener Discovery
- Multicast Router Discovery
- References
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5. Networking
- Layer 2 Support for IPv6
- Upper-Layer Protocols
- Multicast
- Routing Protocols
- Quality of Service
- Provisioning
- References
- 6. Security with IPv6
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7. Transition Technologies
- Dual-Stack
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Tunneling Techniques
- How Tunneling Works
- Automatic Tunneling
- Configured Tunneling (RFC 4213)
- Encapsulation in IPv6 (RFC 2473)
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Tunneling Mechanisms
- 6to4
- IPv6 Rapid Deployment—6rd
- ISATAP
- Teredo
- Tunnel Broker
- IPv4/IPv6 coexistence by using VLANs
- IPv6 in MPLS networks
- Locator ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
- Generic Routing Encapsulation
- Softwire Hub and Spoke Deployment Framework
- Proto 41 forwarding
- SSH (Secure Shell) Tunnels
- IPv4 Residual Deployment via IPv6 (4rd)
- Network Address and Protocol Translation
- Comparison
- References
- 8. Mobile IPv6
- 9. Planning for IPv6
- A. RFCs
- B. Recommended Reading
- Index
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: IPv6 Essentials, 3rd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2014
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449319212
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