Description
The impending depletion of the current pool of Internet addresses and the desire to provide additional functionality for modern devices, brought upon the definition of an upgrade of the current version of the Internet Protocol (IP), called IPv4.
This new version, called IP version 6 (IPv6), resolves unanticipated IPv4 design issues and takes the Internet into the 21st Century.
The course describes the problems of the IPv4 Internet and how they are solved by IPv6, IPv6 addressing, the new IPv6 header and its extensions, the IPv6 replacements for the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) and Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP), neighboring node interaction, and IPv6 address auto configuration, and describes Internet standards-based IPv6 concepts.