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IPv6 / IPv6 Basics
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I'd like to give you just some basic information about IP version 6 to kind of guide you as to what to look forward to with IP version 6, and to get you ready to answer just some of the very simple basic kind of foundational questions that you could see on the Network+ exam. So first of all, I've already talked about it in another video in this course, but IP version 6 gives us a much larger address space, and the new address space consists of eight sets of sixteen bit hexadecimal values, and these are separated by colons. Now our old IP version 4, of course, was four octets, or four sets of eight bit values, and these were separated by periods, and this is separated by colons, each one is sixteen bits, and there's eight of them. And this is what an IP version 6 IP address looks like. Notice, a lot different from the old 192 168 3 dot whatever. This, as you can tell, is going to force us into an environment of dealing more and more on DNS for our name resolution, because while I can remember 192 168 3.15 long enough to walk down the hall and do troubleshooting, or to move from one utility to another, I cannot remember 3FFE 1900 4545 3200:F8FF: blah blah blah. You see this is not going to be a workable solution for that way. Now what's interesting about IP version 6, is that it uses 64 bits for network ID, and 64 bits for the host ID, and we're talking about Unicast or what you would just call regular old IP communication, not multi cast, or any of that kind of stuff. So with 64 bits for the network IDs, we can have a lot of networks, and 64 bits for the host, we can have a whole lot of hosts. Now we have a better header format than IP version 4, because one of the things we have, one of the luxury's we have for re-designing IP, at this point in time, is to correct some of the things that happened with IP version 4. If you think back to what the world was like when IP version 4 was created, it was an entirely different universe at that time. Security really wasn't built in, routers were not that bigger deal that they are now, and so they've designed IP version 6, kind of out of the box if you will, to be much more efficient for routing. To have better formats on the headers and packets and so forth, it is also easily extensible, and this will allow the packets to be very easily changed and extended to adapt to emerging technologies. So we can add some more functionalities to the IP version 6 packets. Now it also, this is a very interesting one, it gives us resource allocation support built into the Protocol. Now what that means is, is the source can request special handling of it's packets. In other words, if I'm going to send out some information, and it's going to be streaming video, I can put in my first packet to the destination, hey by the way, I want to set up special handling on these packets, to make sure that you get them all properly, and the application works. Now what you should do is, think automated Quality of Service. So if you've watched the Quality of Service video in this course, you know what I'm talking about, or you may have already known about Quality of Service. IP version 6 is going to give us very similar functionality, just out of the box. IP version 6 has security features built in. Again IP version 4 didn't. We came from a different world, and with IP version 6 of course, we've changed our thinking, and we have a lot of security features built in, I won't go into them here. Here's the big question. When will I start using IP version 6? Well the easy answer is, as soon as you want to. The whole of Microsoft's operating systems now support it, the server operating systems do, Windows 7 does, you just have to go out there, and begin to use it. As of April 2010, IP version 6 utilization on the Internet was somewhere around five percent. Now that's not a big number, but we're starting to approach those percentages at five percent, to where you can see that this thing is started to get traction, it's starting to be used, and you will see the rate of growth now, get larger and larger exponentially every time it's measured. So the bottom line on IP version 6 is, should be you using it now? Well, it depends. In a lot of instances, you have to convert between 4 and 6, but here's what you should do. Not just for this Network+ exam, but you should be reading up on IP version 6, kind of get your hands on it, and let me warn you about something here. IP version 6 is still in development, and there are still some things that change slightly about it OK? So we're still going through that whole process, but it would really help your career from a networking standpoint, to go ahead and familiarize yourself with IP version 6, and just kind of start to read up on it, and start to understand some of the nuances. There's a lot of them, I haven't even scratched the surface in this short video, but that's just some very basics on IP version 6.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | CompTIA Network+ (2009 Objectives) |
| Author: | Mark Long |
| SKU: | 34216 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-90-9 |
| Release Date: | 2011-04-29 |
| Duration: | 6 hrs / 91 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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