IPv6 Essentials

by Silvia Hagen

With the continuing eruption of Internet-enabled devices—smartphones, tablets, PCs, cars, infusion pumps, refrigerators, earthquake detectors, and thousands of other gadgets—the 30 year-old IPv4 communications protocol is straining under the weight. This book gets you up to speed on IPv6, the long-awaited revision that offers 128-bit addresses to replace IPv4’s outdated 32-bit system.

For nearly a decade, IPv6 has been "just two years away". Finally, the future has arrived. The new version is ready, it works, and momentum is starting to build. This thoroughly revised third edition of IPv6 Essentials provides a succinct, in-depth update of the latest features and functions in IPv6, guiding you through everything you need to know to get started.

Ideal for system and network administrators, engineers, network designers, and IT managers, this book will help you plan for, design, and integrate IPv6 into your current IPv4 infrastructure.

Genres: Computers, Technology, Technical, Ebooks, Reference, Nonfiction, Internet

438 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2002

Reviews

[Shawn Zernik · Rating 3 out of 5]

IPv4 just ran out of spaces in the European Union making this relevant again. The intro is great with history justifying the price itself.

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[Christopher · Rating 2 out of 5]

A distillation of the RFCs related to IPv6. Very focused on the bits and where they go which is useful when programming in the network stack, but doesn't help much when writing application level IPv6 enabled code.

Gives decent overview of IPv6 administration options but as the book doesn't focus on any single OS it can't give details on how to implement them.

[Dale Pearl · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lacks the information one would need in working with IPv6 but it does cover the science behind it quite well. One of the more difficult computer reads that I have come across. Not recommended but as a once a year if that reference.