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IPv6 Address Planning: Designing an Address Plan for the Future
If you re ready to join the move to IPv6, this comprehensive guide gets you started by showing you how to create an effective IPv6 address plan. In three example-driven sections preparation, design, and maintenance you ll learn principles and best practices for designing, deploying, and maintaining an address plan far beyond what s possible with IPv4 networks.
During the course of the book, you ll walk through the process of building a sample address plan for a fictional company. Enterprise IT network architects, engineers, and administrators will see firsthand how IPv6 provides opportunities for creating an operationally efficient plan that s scalable, flexible, extensible, manageable, and durable.Explore IPv6 addressing basics, including representation, structure, and typesManage risks and costs by using a three-phase approach for deploying IPv6Dig into IPv6 subnetting methods and learn how they differ from IPv4Determine the appropriate size and type of the IPv6 allocation you requireApply current network management tools to IPv6Use IPv6 renumbering methods that enable greater network scale and easier integrationImplement policies and practices to keep IPv6 addresses reachable"
During the course of the book, you ll walk through the process of building a sample address plan for a fictional company. Enterprise IT network architects, engineers, and administrators will see firsthand how IPv6 provides opportunities for creating an operationally efficient plan that s scalable, flexible, extensible, manageable, and durable.Explore IPv6 addressing basics, including representation, structure, and typesManage risks and costs by using a three-phase approach for deploying IPv6Dig into IPv6 subnetting methods and learn how they differ from IPv4Determine the appropriate size and type of the IPv6 allocation you requireApply current network management tools to IPv6Use IPv6 renumbering methods that enable greater network scale and easier integrationImplement policies and practices to keep IPv6 addresses reachable"
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286 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 1, 2014
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March 22, 2018
Good book focused on getting away with legacy IP (IPv4) thinking, recommendations based on author's experience on a large ISP and some related IPv6 related technologies such as DNS, DHCP, dynamic routing, IPAM, etc...
It won't touch too much technical or how to do configurations as it would be a vendors guide, instead you get to learn how to proper plan address for sites on all sizes and how to decide what is a site to you (i.e. geographical region, country, worldwide), how to divide network addressing based on organisation needs or structure to be able to scale growth while allowing optimisation of prefix aggregation to keep manageable routing tables. You will get to hear a lot ditching legacy style allocation as this shouldn't be an issue in IPv6, and focus on nibble boundaries and network functions.
This is not a beginner's book on IPv6, but a reference to better plan and deploy once one has background information on how headers, ND and configuration works, but a very good complementary learning once you grasp the foundations of next generation IP.
It won't touch too much technical or how to do configurations as it would be a vendors guide, instead you get to learn how to proper plan address for sites on all sizes and how to decide what is a site to you (i.e. geographical region, country, worldwide), how to divide network addressing based on organisation needs or structure to be able to scale growth while allowing optimisation of prefix aggregation to keep manageable routing tables. You will get to hear a lot ditching legacy style allocation as this shouldn't be an issue in IPv6, and focus on nibble boundaries and network functions.
This is not a beginner's book on IPv6, but a reference to better plan and deploy once one has background information on how headers, ND and configuration works, but a very good complementary learning once you grasp the foundations of next generation IP.
March 4, 2018
This was my 2nd book on ipv6 (after IPv6 Essentials) and it was much easier to read. The Author did not go into so much detail about packet fields and processes going on in ipv6 operation, so it seems that these books should be read in reverse order. After finishing both, I feel more at home in the (for me) new protocol. Tom Coffeen's book was also more practical with proposed address plans and tactics to split up assigned space (and also procedures required to get that space). The language of the book was more fresh and even funny sometimes. Good book, I recommend it.
September 26, 2018
Great IPv6 subnetting guide
This book certainly helped me become more familiar and comfortable with IPv6 and subnetting. Tom clearly knows his stuff and has a decent, yet mild sense of humor throughout the book.
This book certainly helped me become more familiar and comfortable with IPv6 and subnetting. Tom clearly knows his stuff and has a decent, yet mild sense of humor throughout the book.
December 31, 2019
This is a great book, especially about dispensing with IPv4 thinking as you roll out IPv6.
January 29, 2016
only part of the chapters are new to me
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