Ebook: IPv6 Network Administration

What once seemed nearly impossible has turned into reality. The number of available Internet addresses is now nearly exhausted, due mostly to the explosion of commercial websites and entries from an expanding number of countries. This growing shortage has effectively put the Internet community--and some of its most brilliant engineers--on alert for the last decade. Their solution was to create IPv6, a new Internet standard which will ultimately replace the current and antiquated IPv4. As the new backbone of the Internet, this new protocol would fix the most difficult problems that the Interne.;Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; What This Book Is ... and Is Not; History and Background; The IETF and friends; Chronological overview; Contenders for the throne; People; Adoption; Commercial Services; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Comments and Questions; Safari Enabled; Contacting the Authors; A Note on RFCs and Internet Drafts; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Support; Donations; Part I; The Unforeseen Limitations of IPv4; Addressing Model; CIDR; NAT; Security; DNS; MAC Layer Address Resolution; Broadcast Versus Multicast; Quality of Service; Routing.