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O'Reilly's IPv6 Overview

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the more-than-sticks-can-be-shaken-at dept.

Scooter[AMMO] writes: "I thought people might be interested in this IPv6 overview currently on O'Reillynet. It touches on what a lot of us already know, like a larger addressable space, security, and mobility, but it also goes into some detail that others may not know yet. It gives information on how addresses are divided between host bits and network bits, address creation, NDP, name resolution, multicasting, localnets, and localsites. It also has RFC references for the more demanding researchers among us."

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  1. IPv6, NAT, and the little people by ClayJar · · Score: 5

    It seems that every overview of IPv6 I read talks about it eliminating the need for NAT. However, this is only going to be in the case of, for example, a large corporation that is using NAT solely to avoid spending money on IP addresses. In my little piece of the world, I run NAT (IP masq) NOT because there aren't enough addresses but rather because my ISP adds about $7/month for each additional computer, and only up to three on a home account (at least double the price if you want a business account).

    There is no way in H-E-double-hockey-sticks that my ISP is going to just up and say "Okay, now there are plenty of addresses, so we'll stop charging extra for additional computers." They're not going to just let me have six computers connected with IPv6, IPv4, or whatever. For the home user (cable modem, xDSL, modem, or whatever), there will always be a need for NAT.

  2. Re:Why does IPv6 matter right now? by wrero · · Score: 4

    www.cisco.com/ipv6

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sdks/platform/ tpipv6.asp

    What's the problem?