IPv6 TUTORIAL
Ramón Sierra Pérez
High Performance Computing facilityWhat is IPv6?
● Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the next-generation Internet
Protocol version designated as the successor to IPv4.
● The main driving force for the redesign of Internet Protocol is the
foreseeable IPv4 address exhaustion.
● IPv6 was defined in December 1998 by the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF) with the publication of an Internet standard
specification, RFC 2460.
03/05/10 IPv6 Tutorial 2Motivations: Why IPv6?
● Foreseeable IPv4 address exhaustion.
– Projected IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)
Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 23-Sep-2011
– Projected RIR (Regional Internet Registry) Unallocated
Address Pool Exhaustion: 09-Oct-2012
● How much space do you have?
– Is that enough?
● NAT will solve this problem?
– Can you manage a network or diagnose a problem that
is 3 layers of NAT deep?
03/05/10 IPv6 Tutorial 3Motivations: Why IPv6?
● There are IPv6-only networks on the Internet
● Do you have programs with foreign universities?
– If they move to IPv6, where does that leave you and
those students?
● If your website & services are only accessible via
IPv4, will you ever know that opportunities you've
missed?
● Others
03/05/10 IPv6 Tutorial 4IPv6 Addressing
03/05/10 IPv6 Tutorial 5IPv6 Addressing Scheme
● 128 bit long addresses
128– # of IP's in IPv6: 2 =
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456
32– # of IP's in IPv4: 2 = 4 ...
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