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IPv6 Network Administration
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What once seemed nearly impossible has turned into reality. The number of available
Internet addresses is now nearly exhausted, due mostly to the explosion of commercial
websites and entries from an expanding number of countries. This growing shortage
has effectively put the Internet community--and some of its most brilliant engineers--on
alert for the last decade.
Their solution was to create IPv6, a new Internet standard which will ultimately
replace the current and antiquated IPv4. As the new backbone of the Internet,
this new protocol would fix the most difficult problems that the Internet faces
today--scalability and management. And even though IPv6's implementation has
met with some resistance over the past few years, all signs are now pointing
to its gradual worldwide adoption in the very near future. Sooner or later,
all network administrators will need to understand IPv6, and now is a good time
to get started.
IPv6 Network Administration offers administrators the complete inside
info on IPv6. This book reveals the many benefits as well as the potential downsides
of this next-generation protocol. It also shows readers exactly how to set up
and administer an IPv6 network.
A must-have for network administrators everywhere, IPv6 Network Administration
delivers an even-handed approach to what will be the most fundamental change
to the Internet since its inception. Some of the other IPv6 assets that are
covered include:
- routing
- integrated auto-configuration
- quality-of-services (QoS)
- enhanced mobility
- end-to-end security
IPv6 Network Administration explains what works, what doesn't, and most
of all, what's practical when considering upgrading networks from the current
protocol to IPv6.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Part I. The Character of IPv6
1. The Unforeseen Limitations of IPv4
Addressing Model
NAT
Security
MAC Layer Address Resolution
Broadcast Versus Multicast
Quality of Service
Routing
Summary
2. The (Un)foreseen Successes of IPv4
Simplicity
Resiliency
Scalability
Flexibility
Autoconfiguration
Extensibility
In Short-
3. Describing IPv6
Designed for Today and Tomorrow
Packets and Structures
Address Architecture
ICMPv6
Address Selection
More About Headers
Introduction to Mobile IPv6
Routing
Security
Quality of Service
The Promise of IPv6
Part II. Deploying IPv6
4. Planning
Transition Mechanisms
Obtaining IPv6 Address Space and Connectivity
Network Design
Managing IPv4 and IPv6 Coexistence
Deploying IPv6
Inputs to Deployment Plans
Worked Examples
Summary
5. Installation and Configuration
Workstations and Servers
Routers
Enabling, Testing, and Troubleshooting
Static Routing
Configuring Transition Mechanisms
Applications
Gotchas
Summary
6. Operations
DNS
IPsec
Routing
Firewalls
Management
Providing Transition Mechanisms
Summary
7. Services
General Notes
Inetd/TCP Wrappers
HTTP
SMTP
POP/IMAP
NNTP
NTP
Syslog
Printing
FTP
Remote Login Services
If All Else Fails-
Summary
8. Programming
Relevant Functions
Some Simple Examples
Case Study: MMDF
Other Considerations for Developers
Summary
9. The Future
Unresolved Issues
Up and Coming Subject Areas
Summary
Glossary
Index
About the Authors
Niall Murphy has worked in the I.T. and Internet industries since 1995.
His initial exposure to computers came with an Amstrad CPC 464 in the early
1980s, from which he never recovered. In college, Niall founded the which, at
its height, gave Internet access to over two and a half thousand students who
would not otherwise have had it. He also played way too much chess.
During the process of obtaining a degree in Computer
Science and Mathematics, he held down a variety of programming, system and network
administration and security-related jobs. After college, he went on to found
his own consulting company, and participate in the start-up phase of a large
number of companies and projects including Club Internet, Digifone On-Line,
and Hutchison 3G. He used to run the root nameservers for Ireland, and is proud
of having started five RIPE LIRs.
He has experience in networking of almost every kind
(with the grateful exception of X.25) UNIX and Windows system administration,
C systems programming, Perl, PHP, database creation and management, and Internet/IP
services of all kinds, with specialities in database-backed web applications,
wireless networking and next-generation networking.
As per the old adage, he thinks UNIX is the worst operating system there is,
apart from all the others. He is a published poet, RFC co-author and O' Reilly
co-author who does landscape photography for fun; you can see some of his work
at South Bull Photography.
David Malone is a mathematician-cum-sysadmin. He is a researcher in
the Hamilton Institute in Maynooth, Ireland, working on mathematical models
of communications networks. Since 1994, he's also been a member of the sysadmin
team of the School of Mathematics located in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
There he helps to maintain a Unix-like service provided by FreeBSD and Linux
machines. Naturally, they all speak IPv6.
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