Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Windows Server 2012 IPv6 Support

When the original structure of the Internet was taking shape, an addressing scheme was formulated to scale to a large number of hosts. From this thinking came the original design of the Internet Protocol, which included theoretical support for around 4 billion addresses, or 2 ^ 32. The thinking at the time was that this would be more than enough addresses for all hosts on the Internet. This original design gave birth to the IP address structure that is common today, known as dotted-decimal format (such as 12.155.166.151). At the time, this address space filled the addressing needs of the Internet. However, it was quickly discovered that the range of addresses was inadequate, and stopgap measures such as Network ...