In this chapter, you will learn about the addressing used in IPv4 and IPv6. We'll assign addresses of both types to various interfaces on the hosts and routers of the Illustrated Network. We'll ...

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IPv6 is a powerful enhancement to IPv4 with features that better suit current and foreseeable network demands, including the following: IPv6 increases the number of address bits by a factor of 4, from ...

Internet service providers (ISPs) are running out of public IPv4 addresses and want to move away from IPv4 in their internal network. Mapping of Address and Port with Encapsulation (MAP-E), an IPv6 ...

Let’s take a long hard look at an IPv6 address. Amazon supply IPv6 addresses with their EC2 cloud computers. When you fire up an EC2 virtual machine, you get an IPv6 address like this.

"All new retail wireline customer connections provided by service providers after December 31, 2022, shall be capable of carrying IPv6 traffic either on dual stack on native IPv6," the note said. "All ...