Chapter12
IPv6
“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.”
—Jay Leno
In this chapter, you will learn how to
■ Discuss the fundamental concepts of IPv6
■ Describe IPv6 practices
■ Implement IPv6 in a TCP/IP network
The Internet developers wanted to make a networking protocol that had serious longevity, so they had to define a large enough IP address space to last well beyond the foreseeable future. They had to determine how many computers might exist in the future and then make the IP address space even bigger. ...
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