IPv6 Essentials: Integrating IPv6 into Your IPv4 Network

by Silvia Hagen

If your organization is gearing up for IPv6, this in-depth book provides the practical information and guidance you need to plan for, design, and implement this vastly improved protocol. Author Silvia Hagen takes system and network administrators, engineers, and network designers through the technical details of IPv6 features and functions, and provides options for those who need to integrate IPv6 with their current IPv4 infrastructure.

The flood of Internet-enabled devices has made migrating to IPv6 a paramount concern worldwide. In this updated edition, Hagen distills more than ten years of studying, working with, and consulting with enterprises on IPv6. It’s the only book of its kind.

IPv6 Essentials

Address architecture, header structure, and the ICMPv6 message formatIPv6 mechanisms such as Neighbor Discovery, Stateless Address autoconfiguration, and Duplicate Address detectionNetwork-related aspects and Layer 2 support, Upper Layer Protocols, and ChecksumsIPv6 general practices, IPSec basics, IPv6 security elements, and enterprise security modelsTransitioning to dual-stack operation, tunneling, and translation techniquesMobile technology for a new generation of mobile servicesPlanning options, integration scenarios, address plan, best practices, and dos and don’ts

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

737 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.