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IPv6 Ready For A Spin

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the vaporware-protocols dept.

ibjhb writes: "Sprint and WorldCom are itching to launch the IPv6. This will provided us with the 'zillions' of extra addresses not provided by the current IPv4. There's other capabilities, including increased sercurity. ZDNet carries the story ..." Seems like we've been talking about IPv6 for as long as I've been using IPv4.

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  1. IPv6 Resources by Fender21 · · Score: 5

    I am actually doing a report on this and found some really good articles and other tidbits at the following:

    http://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng/html/INET-IPng- Paper.html#CH2
    http://www.6bone.net/misc/case-for-ipv6.html

    As far as compatibility goes, they (Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)) have really worked hard on making a solid set of standards for this. The Sun.com resource I posted goes into pretty good detail on how this will all come together.
    Before reading this article, I was totally under the impression that the ONLY need to go to IPv6 was due to lack of IPv4 addresses but that is not the case at all. IPv6 has a ton of nifty add-ons as far as the extension headers and the size of this new header is really only about twice the size of the IPv4 header. The new extension header includes:


    Routing - This is considered Extended Routing which is based somewhat on the IPV4 source routing steps.

    Fragmentation- This will allow headers to be fragmented and be able to reassemble itself back together.

    Authentication- This will include integrity and authentication checks to enable better security over the IPV4 standard.

    Encapsulation- This also deals with security and enables the packet to be kept Confidential.

    Hop-by-Hop Option- this will allow hop-by-hop processing.

    Destination Options- Optional information that will be examined by the destination node.

    Also some cool facts:
    The issue of the number of addresses availible for IPv6 works out to be around:
    340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,45 6 addresses.
    And this breaks down to about 1,500 IP addresses for each square meter on the surface of Earth and that an estimated fifteen percent of the address space for IPv6 would be used in the initial switchover from the old standard to the new standard.
    -Gregg

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  2. Re: 029A:7734:029A:7734 by Megane · · Score: 5

    Any kid who grew up in the '70s can tell you that 7734 is the word "HELL" upside-down on a calculator. :)

    --
    #naabhaprzrag, #sverubfr-000, #agi-fcbafberq, negvpyr[pynff*=' negvpyr-ary-'] { qvfcynl: abar !vzcbegnag; }
  3. You can use IPv6 today! by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 5

    And you don't even have to wait for your ISP to support it. Just turn on 6to4, and with one IPv4 address you can get quite a few IPv6 subnets (each of which contains 2^64 addresses).

    Windows already supports 6to4, BSD probably does, and I don't know about Linux.