Skip to Content
IPv6 Essentials
book

IPv6 Essentials

by Silvia Hagen
July 2002
Beginner
360 pages
11h 19m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from IPv6 Essentials

Next Header Field Values (Chapter 2)

Table B-2 lists the possible values for the Next Header field in the IPv6 Header, as explained in Chapter 2. The complete list can also be found at http://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers.

Table B-2. Next Header field values

Decimal

Protocol

Reference

0

IPv6 Hop-by-Hop Option

RFC 1883

1

Internet Control Message

RFC 792

2

Internet Group Management

RFC 1112

3

Gateway-to-Gateway

RFC 823

4

IP in IP (encapsulation)

RFC 2003

5

Stream

RFC 1190

6

Transmission Control

RFC 793

7

CBT

Ballardie

8

Exterior Gateway Protocol

RFC 888

9

Any private interior gateway (used by Cisco for their IGRP)

IANA

10

BBN RCC Monitoring

SGC

11

Network Voice Protocol

RFC 741

12

PUP

PUP, Xerox

13

ARGUS

RWS4

14

EMCON

BN7

15

XNET, Cross Net Debugger

IEN158,JFH2

16

CHAOS

NC3

17

UDP

RFC 768

18

Multiplexing (MUX)

IEN90,JBP

19

DCN Measurement Subsystems

DLM1

20

Host Monitoring (HMP)

RFC 869

21

Packet Radio Measurement (PRM)

ZSU

22

XEROX NS IDP

ETHERNET,XEROX

23

Trunk-1

BWB6

24

Trunk-2

BWB6

25

Leaf-1

BWB6

26

Leaf-2

BWB6

27

Reliable Data Protocol (RDP)

RFC 908

28

Internet Reliable Transaction (IRTP)

RFC 938

29

ISO Transport Protocol Class 4

RFC 905

30

Bulk Data Transfer Protocol

RFC 969

31

MFE Network Services Protocol

MFENET,BCH2

32

MERIT Internodal Protocol

HWB

33

Sequential Exchange Protocol (SEP)

JC120

34

Third Party Connect Protocol

SAF3

35

Inter-Domain Policy ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

IPv6 Essentials, 2nd Edition

IPv6 Essentials, 2nd Edition

Silvia Hagen
IPv6 Security

IPv6 Security

Scott Hogg, Eric Vyncke

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0596001258Catalog PageErrata