IPv6 Network Administration

Table of Contents
 Foreword
 Preface
 What This Book Is ... and Is Not
 History and Background
 The IETF and friends
 Chronological overview
 Contenders for the throne
 People
 Adoption
 Commercial Services
 Conventions Used in This Book
 Using Code Examples
 Comments and Questions
 Safari Enabled
 Contacting the Authors
 A Note on RFCs and Internet Drafts
 Acknowledgments
 Contributors
 Support
 Donations
 Part I
 The Unforeseen Limitations of IPv4
 Addressing Model
 CIDR
 NAT
 Security
 DNS
 MAC Layer Address Resolution
 Broadcast Versus Multicast
 Quality of Service
 Routing. Internal Routing ProtocolsBGP: The External Routing Protocol
 Limits to Success of BGP
 Summary
 The (Un)foreseen Successes of IPv4
 Simplicity
 Resiliency
 Scalability
 Flexibility
 Autoconfiguration
 Extensibility
 In Short ... 
 Describing IPv6
 Designed for Today and Tomorrow
 Address Space Exhaustion
 Optimization
 Packets and Structures
 Basic Header Structure
 Addressing Concepts
 Notation
 Hex digit notation
 Grouping and separation
 Elision
 Scope identifiers
 Subnetting
 Address Architecture
 Global Unicast Addressing
 Link-Local Addressing
 Site-Local Addressing
 Multicast. Multicast addressing in IPv6Hardware support
 Anycast
 ICMPv6
 ICMP Echoes and Errors
 Neighborhood Watch
 Address resolution
 DAD
 NUD
 Redirection
 Router/prefix advertisement
 Stateless autoconfiguration
 ICMP name resolution
 Router Renumbering
 Multicast Listener Discovery
 Summary of ICMPv6 Types
 Address Selection
 More About Headers
 Extension Headers
 Checksums
 Header Compression
 Introduction to Mobile IPv6
 Routing
 RIPng
 OSPF
 Integrated IS-IS
 BGP-4+
 Security
 Quality of Service
 The Promise of IPv6
 Simplicity and Flexibility
 Mobility and Security
 Part II
 Planning. Transition MechanismsDual Stack
 Configured Tunnelling
 Automatic Tunnelling
 6to4
 DJB\'s AutoIPv6
 Teredo
 6over4
 ISATAP
 SIIT
 NAT46/64-PT
 TRT
 Bump in the Stack/API
 Proxies
 Summary of Transition Mechanisms
 Obtaining IPv6 Address Space and?Connectivity
 Upstream Providers
 6to4
 6Bone
 Only Intermittently Connected
 RIRs
 Relevance to IPv6
 RIR operations background
 RIPE
 Current policy
 Network Design
 Addressing
 Subnetting
 DHCP
 Changes to DHCP for IPv6
 Multihoming
 Multiple upstream providers, no BGP
 Multiple Upstream Providers, BGP
 Multiattaching. Managing IPv4 and IPv6 CoexistenceFudging Native Connectivity with Ethernet
 Deploying IPv6
 Inputs to Deployment Plans
 Existing IPv4 Infrastructure
 Converting a host at a time: dual stack
 Connectivity and routers
 Converting a host at a time: single stack
 No Existing IPv4 Infrastructure
 Topologies
 Edge to core or core to edge
 Router placement and advertisement
 Worked Examples
 Enterprise-class IPv4-connected network
 Transit-providing medium-size ISP
 Special case: Internet Exchange Point
 Summary
 Installation and Configuration
 Workstations and Servers
 Windows
 Windows 2000.