May 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1200 pages
44h 39m
English
SOME OF THE MAIN TOPICS IN THIS CHAPTER ARE
What’s the Difference Between IPv4 and IPv6? 654
The first Request for Comments (RFC) to define the next generation of the Internet Protocol (IP) was RFC 1883, “Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification,” published as a “standards track” RFC in 1995. When you consider that the Internet was expanding at a very rapid rate at that time (as it continues to do), it seemed a natural thing to develop a new version of IP to accommodate a larger address space, and to patch some holes in the current version of IP. Many other RFCs have been created since this original one. Specifically, ...