Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification...
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An Internet Protocol version 6 address (IPv6 address) is a numeric label that is used to identify and locate a network interface of a computer or a network...
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User Datagram Protocol (redirect from IPv6 pseudo header)
Source Port fields is optional in IPv4 (light purple background in table). In IPv6 only the Source Port field is optional. If not used, these fields should...
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Subnet (redirect from IPv6 subnetting)
to this network, with 198.51.100.255 as the subnet broadcast address. The IPv6 address specification 2001:db8::/32 is a large address block with 296 addresses...
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Classless Inter-Domain Routing (redirect from IPv6 subnetting reference)
Internet service providers and end users on any address-bit boundary. In IPv6, however, the interface identifier has a fixed size of 64 bits by convention...
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IP address (section IPv6 addresses)
2010s. Its designated successor, IPv6, uses 128 bits for the IP address, giving it a larger address space. Although IPv6 deployment has been ongoing since...
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The deployment of IPv6, the latest version of the Internet Protocol (IP), has been in progress since the mid-2000s. IPv6 was designed as the successor...
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An IPv6 packet is the smallest message entity exchanged using Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Packets consist of control information for addressing...
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An IPv6 transition mechanism is a technology that facilitates the transitioning of the Internet from the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) infrastructure...
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Mobile IP (redirect from Mobile IPv6)
defined in RFC 4721. Mobile IPv6, the IP mobility implementation for the next generation of the Internet Protocol, IPv6, is described in RFC 6275. The...
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Link-local address (section IPv6)
autoconfiguration (SLAAC, specific to IPv6). While most link-local addresses are unicast, this is not necessarily the case; e.g. IPv6 addresses beginning with ff02:...
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reasons for the development and deployment of its successor protocol, IPv6. IPv4 and IPv6 coexist on the Internet. The IP address space is managed globally...
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Reserved IP addresses (section IPv6)
designates special usage or applications for various addresses or address blocks: IPv6 assigns special uses or applications for various IP addresses: Bogon filtering...
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IPv6 transition can refer to: IPv6 deployment, the process of transitioning the Internet to use the IPv6 protocol IPv6 transition mechanism, meachanisms...
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Multicast address (section IPv6)
layer (layer 3 for OSI) for Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) or Version 6 (IPv6) multicast. IPv4 multicast addresses are defined by the most-significant...
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protocol of the Internet. Its successor is Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), which has been in increasing deployment on the public Internet since around...
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NAT64 (redirect from IPv4-embedded IPv6 addresses)
NAT64 is an IPv6 transition mechanism that facilitates communication between IPv6 and IPv4 hosts by using a form of network address translation (NAT)...
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6rd is a mechanism to facilitate IPv6 rapid deployment across IPv4 infrastructures of Internet service providers (ISPs). The protocol is derived from 6to4...
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Private network (section Private IPv6 addresses)
residential, office, and enterprise environments. Both the IPv4 and the IPv6 specifications define private IP address ranges. Most Internet service providers...
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Network address translation (section NAT in IPv6)
There is considerably more concern with the use of IPv6 NAT, and many IPv6 architects believe IPv6 was intended to remove the need for NAT. An implementation...
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Multihoming (redirect from IPv6 multihoming)
multihoming with multiple addresses may be used in IPv6. Provider Independent Address Space (PI) is available in IPv6. This technique has the advantage of working...
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IP fragmentation (section IPv4 and IPv6 differences)
architectural approach to fragmentation, are different between IPv4 and IPv6. RFC 791 describes the procedure for IP fragmentation, and transmission and...
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IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation (NPTv6) is a specification for IPv6 to achieve address-independence at the network edge, similar to network address...
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Protocol field of the IPv4 header and the 8-bit Next Header field of the IPv6 header. It is an identifier for the encapsulated protocol and determines...
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Neighbor Discovery Protocol (redirect from Neighbor Discovery Protocol for IPv6)
protocol of the Internet protocol suite used with Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6).: §1 It operates at the internet layer of the Internet model, and is responsible...
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Happy Eyeballs (category IPv6 transition technologies)
IPv4 and IPv6) more responsive to users by attempting to connect using both IPv4 and IPv6 at the same time (preferring IPv6), thus minimizing IPv6 brokenness...
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today, even with the ongoing deployment of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), its successor. IPv4 uses a 32-bit address space which provides 4,294,967...
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Unique local address (category IPv6)
A unique local address (ULA) is an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address in the address range fc00::/7. These addresses are non-globally reachable...
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Martian packet (section IPv4 and IPv6)
IPv4 and IPv6, a Martian packet has a source address, a destination address, or both within one of the special-use ranges. 6to4 is an IPv6 transition...
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