Learn the ins and outs of IPv6 addressing

Get a detailed look at the issues associated with addressing under IPv6 in this advance chapter from The TCP/IP Guide.

The TCP/IP Guide, scheduled for publication by No Starch Press in August 2005, is billed as being both "encyclopedic" and "comprehensible"--no small feat, given the scope and complexity of the topic. This chapter details the concepts and methods associated with addressing under IPv6. Among the subjects covered:

• The IPv6 addressing model, address types' size, and address space
• The representations and notations used for IPv6 addresses and prefixes
• How addresses are arranged and allocated into types
• The new methods used for mapping IP addresses to underlying physical network addresses
• Special IPv6 addressing issues, such as reserved and private addresses, IPv4 address embedding, anycast and multicast addresses, and autoconfiguration and renumbering of addresses

Title: The TCP/IP Guide
ISBN: 1-59327-047-X
Published: Due for release in August 2005; No Starch Press
Author: Charles M. Kozierok
Chapter: Chapter 25, IPv6 Addressing


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