Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification... 64 KB (7,511 words) - 22:45, 21 April 2024 |
User Datagram Protocol (redirect from IPv6 pseudo header) mimics the real IPv6 header: The source address is the one in the IPv6 header. The destination address is the final destination; if the IPv6 packet does not... 24 KB (2,676 words) - 23:13, 16 April 2024 |
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... 139 KB (11,868 words) - 22:46, 25 April 2024 |
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... 32 KB (3,183 words) - 19:30, 8 April 2024 |
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... 26 KB (3,106 words) - 21:07, 28 March 2024 |
IP address (category IPv6) available IPv4 addresses, a new version of IP (IPv6), using 128 bits for the IP address, was standardized in 1998. IPv6 deployment has been ongoing since the mid-2000s... 34 KB (4,169 words) - 09:19, 25 April 2024 |
ICMPv6 (redirect from ICMP for IPv6) Message Protocol (ICMP) for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). ICMPv6 is an integral part of IPv6 and performs error reporting and diagnostic functions... 16 KB (880 words) - 15:15, 25 June 2023 |
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... 11 KB (1,541 words) - 04:48, 26 April 2024 |
An IPv6 packet is the smallest message entity exchanged using Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Packets consist of control information for addressing... 25 KB (3,002 words) - 14:59, 23 March 2024 |
An IPv6 transition mechanism is a technology that facilitates the transitioning of the Internet from the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) infrastructure... 20 KB (2,754 words) - 18:39, 26 April 2024 |
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... 1 KB (648 words) - 09:21, 7 March 2024 |
protocol of the Internet. Its successor is Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), which has been in increasing deployment on the public Internet since around... 17 KB (1,948 words) - 22:40, 29 April 2024 |
Link-local address (section IPv6) addressing (APIPA) or auto-IP. Link-local addresses are not all unicast; e.g. IPv6 addresses beginning with ff02: (ff02::/16), and IPv4 addresses beginning... 8 KB (1,078 words) - 20:16, 28 April 2024 |
Teredo tunneling (category IPv6 transition technologies) technology that gives full IPv6 connectivity for IPv6-capable hosts that are on the IPv4 Internet but have no native connection to an IPv6 network. Unlike similar... 27 KB (3,433 words) - 14:36, 20 December 2023 |
The Site Multihoming by IPv6 Intermediation (SHIM6) protocol is an Internet Layer defined in RFC 5533. The SHIM6 architecture defines failure detection... 2 KB (233 words) - 05:46, 28 January 2024 |
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... 44 KB (5,642 words) - 22:28, 29 April 2024 |
different versions of IP are used in practice today: IPv4 and IPv6. The IPv6 header uses IPv6 addresses and thus offers a much bigger address space but is... 2 KB (236 words) - 11:36, 19 April 2024 |
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... 25 KB (1,813 words) - 13:57, 22 February 2024 |
in the field Protocol of the IPv4 header and the Next Header field of the IPv6 header. It is an identifier for the encapsulated protocol and determines... 20 KB (120 words) - 18:33, 9 November 2023 |
Neighbor Discovery Protocol (redirect from Neighbor Discovery Protocol for IPv6) protocol of the Internet protocol suite used with Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6). It operates at the internet layer of the Internet model, and is responsible... 10 KB (1,150 words) - 17:14, 18 March 2024 |
running Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), as well as version 6 (IPv6). The IPv6 version of the DHCP protocol is commonly called DHCPv6. The Reverse... 52 KB (4,932 words) - 08:08, 23 April 2024 |
Mobile IP (redirect from Mobile IPv6) defined in IETF RFC 4721. Mobile IPv6, the IP mobility implementation for the next generation of the Internet Protocol, IPv6, is described in RFC 6275. The... 11 KB (1,562 words) - 16:47, 6 April 2024 |
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... 12 KB (1,405 words) - 14:23, 10 March 2024 |
basics)". Network World. Retrieved 7 June 2023. Das, Kaushik (2008). "IPv6 Addressing". ipv6.com. Archived from the original on 11 April 2015. Retrieved 7 June... 6 KB (742 words) - 10:30, 10 April 2024 |
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)... 5 KB (666 words) - 16:53, 11 April 2024 |
IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation (NPTv6) is a specification for IPv6 to achieve address-independence at the network edge, similar to network address... 2 KB (184 words) - 17:07, 26 April 2023 |
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... 7 KB (803 words) - 08:36, 25 April 2024 |
DHCPv6 (category IPv6) version 6 (IPv6) hosts with IP addresses, IP prefixes, default route, local segment MTU, and other configuration data required to operate in an IPv6 network... 6 KB (743 words) - 02:09, 6 April 2024 |