IPv6 Essentials

IPv6 Essentials, Second Edition provides a succinct, in-depth tour of all the new features and functions in IPv6. It guides you through everything you need to know to get started, including how to configure IPv6 on hosts and routers and which applications currently support IPv6. The new IPv6 prot...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hagen, Silvia (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Sebastopol : O'Reilly Media 2009.
Edition:2nd ed
Subjects:
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627162706719
Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents; Preface; Audience; About This Book; Organization; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Enabled; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; Why IPv6?; The History of IPv6; What's New in IPv6?; Why Do We Need IPv6?; Common Misconceptions; When Is It Time for IPv6?; IPv6 Around the World; Asia; Europe; The United States; IPv6 Status and Vendor Support; References; RFCs; The Structure of the IPv6 Protocol; General Header Structure; The Fields in the IPv6 Header; Version (4 Bits); Traffic Class (1 Byte); Flow Label (20 Bits); Payload Length (2 Bytes)
  • Next Header (1 Byte)Hop Limit (1 Byte); Source Address (16 Bytes); Destination Address (16 Bytes); Extension Headers; Hop-by-Hop Options Header; Option Type Jumbogram; Option Router Alert; Routing Header; Fragment Header; Destination Options Header; References; IPv6 Addressing; The IPv6 Address Space; Address Types; Unicast, Multicast, and Anycast Addresses; Some General Rules; Address Notation; Prefix Notation; Global Routing Prefixes; Global Unicast Address; International Registry Services and Current Address Allocations; Prefixes; The Interface ID; Address Privacy; Special Addresses
  • IPv6 Addresses with Embedded IPv4 Addresses6to4 Addresses; ISATAP addresses; Teredo Addresses; Link- and Site-Local Addresses; Anycast Address; Multicast Address; Well-Known Multicast Addresses; Solicited-Node Multicast Address; Dynamic Allocation of Multicast Addresses; Required Addresses; Default Address Selection; References; RFCs; Drafts; ICMPv6; General Message Format; Type (1 Byte); Code (1 Byte); Checksum (2 Bytes); Message Body (Variable Size); ICMP Error Messages; Destination Unreachable; Packet Too Big; Time Exceeded; Parameter Problem; ICMP Informational Messages
  • Echo Request MessageEcho Reply; Processing Rules; The ICMPv6 Header in a Trace File; Neighbor Discovery (ND); Router Solicitation and Router Advertisement; Neighbor Solicitation and Neighbor Advertisement; The ICMP Redirect Message; Inverse Neighbor Discovery; Neighbor Discovery Options; Secure Neighbor Discovery; ND in the Trace File; Link-Layer Address Resolution; Neighbor Unreachability Detection (NUD); Neighbor Cache and Destination Cache; Autoconfiguration; Network Renumbering; Path MTU Discovery; Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD); MLDv1; MLDv2; Multicast Router Discovery (MRD)
  • ReferencesRFCs; Drafts; Security with IPv6; General Security Concepts; General Security Practices; IPsec Basics; Security Associations; Key Management; IKEv1; IKEv2; IPsec Databases; IPsec Performance; IPv6 Security Elements; Authentication Header; Encapsulating Security Payload Header; Combination of AH and ESP; Overview of New IPsec RFCs; Interaction of IPsec with IPv6 Elements; IPv6 Security "Gotchas"; Native IPv6; Public Key Infrastructure (PKI); Firewalls and intrusion detection/prevention systems; Implementation issues; Neighbor Discovery issues; Port scanning; Multicast issues
  • Transition and Tunneling Mechanisms