Network Analysis Using Wireshark 2 Cookbook - Second Edition

IPv6 principle of operations

With the dawn of the dot-com bubble in early 1990s, more businesses started relying on IP networks, which meant a drastic depletion of IPv4 address space. Soon the industry realized that there was a need for a new network layer protocol that could accommodate and gratify the growing network requirements. This made the industry start working on next-gen IP (IPng).

While the initial efforts were performed to extend the Stream Protocol (ST2) as a quick fix for the network address depletion, features such as Network Address Translation (NAT) and Dynamic Address Allocation (such as DHCP) addressed the exhaustion to a certain extent, allowing the industry enough time to work on IPng. IPng was developed to not only tackle ...