Description

IPv6 Essentials, Second Edition supplies a concise, in depth tour of all of the new features and capabilities in IPv6. It guides you through everything you have to know to get going, including just how to configure IPv6 on hosts and routers and which applications currently support IPv6. Extended address space, scalability, improved support is offered by the new IPv6 protocols for security, real-time traffic support, and auto-setting to ensure that a novice user can join a device to the Web. Targeted at system and network administrators, engineers, network designers, and IT professionals, this guide can help you understand, arrange for, design, and integrate IPv6 into your present IPv4 infrastructure.Beginning having a brief history of IPv6, writer Silvia Hagen has a summary of new performance and examines why we are in need of IPv6.