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Windows Server® 2008 TCP/IP Protocols and Services
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Windows Server® 2008 TCP/IP Protocols and Services

by Joseph Davies
January 2008
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
14h 16m
English
Microsoft Press
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Differences Between IPv4 and IPv6

Table 8-1 lists some of the differences between IPv4 and IPv6.

Table 8-1. Differences Between IPv4 and IPv6

Category

IPv4

IPv6

Address length

32 bits

128 bits

Header size

20–60 bytes

40 bytes

IPsec header support

Optional

Required

Prioritized delivery support

Limited

Better

Fragmentation

Done by hosts and routers

Done by hosts only

Is a header checksum present?

Yes

No

Does the header include options?

Yes

No

Link-layer address resolution

Broadcast ARP Request frames

Multicast Neighbor Solicitation messages

Error reporting and diagnostic protocol

ICMP (for IPv4)

ICMPv6

Multicast group membership protocol

IGMPv1, IGMPv2, IGMPv3

MLD, MLDv2

Router discovery support

Optional

Required

Network layer broadcast addresses?

Yes

No

Host configuration

DHCP or manual ...

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