
IPv6 Essentials
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Release Date: July 2002
Pages: 360
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- Security in IPv6: concepts, requirements, and solutions. Includes the IPSEC framework and security elements available for authentication and encryption
- Quality of Service: covers the types of QoS in IPv6 and how they can be implemented
- Networking: Layer 2 support for IPv6 with sample network designs that show how to integrate IPv6 into your network without interruption of IPv4 services
- Routing protocols and upper layer protocols
- Getting started on different operating systems: Sun Solaris, Linux, Windows 2000 and Windows XP
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1 IPv6 Versus IPv4
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The History of IPv6
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Overview of Functionality
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Transition Aspects
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IPv6 Alive
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Chapter 2 The Structure of the IPv6 Protocol
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General Header Structure
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The Fields in the IPv6 Header
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Extension Headers
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Chapter 3 IPv6 Addressing
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Address Types
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Address Notation
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Prefix Notation
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Format Prefixes
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Address Privacy
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Aggregatable Global Unicast Address
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Anycast Address
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Multicast Address
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Required Addresses
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Chapter 4 ICMPv6
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General Message Format
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ICMP Error Messages
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ICMP Informational Messages
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Processing Rules
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The ICMPv6 Header in a Trace File
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Neighbor Discovery
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Autoconfiguration
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Path MTU Discovery
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Multicast Group Management
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Chapter 5 Security in IPv6
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Types of Threats
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Basic Security Requirements and Techniques
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Security in the Current Internet Environment
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Current Solutions
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Open Security Issues in the Current Internet
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The IPSEC Framework
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IPv6 Security Elements
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Security Association Negotiation and Key Management
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Interworking of IPv6 Security with Other Services
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Open Issues in IPv6 Security
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Chapter 6 Quality of Service in IPv6
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QoS Paradigms
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Quality of Service in IPv6 Protocols
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QoS Architectures
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Mapping IP QoS to Underlying Transmission Networks
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Further Issues in IP QoS
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Chapter 7 Networking Aspects
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Layer 2 Support for IPv6
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Multicasting
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Mobile IP
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Network Designs
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Chapter 8 Routing Protocols
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RIPng
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OSPF for IPv6 (OSPFv3)
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BGP Extensions for IPv6
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Other Routing Protocols for IPv6
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Chapter 9 Upper-Layer Protocols
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UDP/TCP
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DHCP
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DNS
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SLP
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FTP
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Telnet
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Web Servers
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Chapter 10 Interoperability
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Dual-Stack Techniques
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Tunneling Techniques
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Network Address and Protocol Translation
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Comparison
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Vendor Support
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Chapter 11 Get Your Hands Dirty
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Sun Solaris
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Linux
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Microsoft
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Applications
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Cisco Router
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Description of the Tests
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Vendor Support
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Appendix RFCs
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Standards
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Appendix IPv6 Resources
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Ethertype Field
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Next Header Field Values (Chapter 2)
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Reserved Anycast IDs (Chapter 3,RFC 2526)
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Values for the Multicast Scope Field (Chapter 3, RFC 2373)
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Well-Known Multicast Group Addresses (Chapter 3, RFC 2375)
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ICMPv6 Message Types and Code Values (Chapter 4, RFC 2463)
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Multicast Group Addresses and Token Ring Functional Addresses (Chapter 7)
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Multicast Addresses for SLP over IPv6 (Chapter 9)
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Protocol Translation (Chapter 10, RFC 2765)
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Current Prefix Allocations
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Vendor Support
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Appendix Recommended Reading
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Colophon