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IPv6 Fundamentals: A Straightforward Approach to Understanding IPv6, 2nd Edition
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IPv6 Fundamentals: A Straightforward Approach to Understanding IPv6, 2nd Edition

by Rick Graziani
June 2017
Beginner
688 pages
18h 36m
English
Cisco Press
Content preview from IPv6 Fundamentals: A Straightforward Approach to Understanding IPv6, 2nd Edition

Chapter 2. IPv6 Primer

“It ain’t an easy job but when you bring a herd into town and you ain’t lost one of them, ain’t a feeling like it in the world.”

—Cat Herders, Electronic Data Systems (EDS) commercial, aired during Super Bowl XXXIV

Learning IPv6 is a little like herding cats. Where to start? There are a lot of new concepts, and wherever you start, it always seems like it might have been better to have started somewhere else. This is because each topic relies on some previous knowledge of some of the other topics.

This chapter provides a brief introduction to concepts, protocols, and terminology that will give you the information you need to help you better understand the rest of the book. This chapter also gives you a better idea of some ...

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