Things to know for the IPv6 Test

All the significant points in all the web pages offered by the teacher.
All the significant things in said in class.

• Goals
  
• Addresses
• An IPv6 address is 128 bits long
• It's REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY Huge!
  
• It has three parts
• ISP
• SLA
• Link
  
• Headers
• Normal header has few fields, but more bits that IPv4
• Uses optional headers for things like
• TCP
• UDP
• Jumbograms (very large packets)
• More ...
  
• Every header says if intermediate routers need care (most say no)
• Easy to add new headers
  
• Conversion
• Almost all OSs can do IPv6 including OS X, Windows NT, Linux, Cisco, etc.
• For every IPv4 address there is an IPv6 address, but not the other way round
• All applications that deal with IP numbers must be re-written
• DNS
• HTTP
• Mail
• more
• One can connect to IPv6 via
• Internet2
• Tunnelling
• Other national solutions (even Thailand has one)
  
• Other
• No fragmenting by routers
• NAT should go away
• DHCP support is required