This chapter discusses the implications of the IPv6 extension headers, how they work, and how they differ from the IP option headers used with IPv4. Particular attention will be paid to the proper ...

It has taken longer than anybody might have liked, but the IPv6 protocol is slowly displacing IPv4 across the Internet. A quick, highly scientific "grep the access logs" test shows that about 16% of ...

This chapter examines the purpose and use of the IPv6 header within the IPv6 protocol. The IPv6 header can be divided into a basic header that appears in every IPv6 packet and several extension ...

Miss Parts I and II? No need to search or stress–they're right here:Part I Part II. IPv6 Packet Format br>The structure of the IP packet header was modified in IPv6. These changes reflect some of the ...

It's been 20 years since the Internet Engineering Task Force, or IETF, published the first request for comments leading to the development of IPv6. Last year, the IETF published its latest IPv6 ...

IPv6 is a powerful enhancement to IPv4 with features that better suit current and foreseeable network demands, including the following: IPv6 increases the number of address bits by a factor of 4, from ...

You may be pretty familiar with Segment Routing and I bet you’re likely tying it to MPLS as the industry at large has been mainly focused on driving awareness and adoption of MPLS Segment Routing. But ...

If you are using Internet or almost any computer network you will likely using IPv4 packets. IPv4 uses 32-bit source and destination address fields. We are actually running out of addresses but have ...

Segment routing is a modern source-routing architecture that is being developed within the IETF. Traditional IP routing uses destination-based hop-by-hop forwarding. Each intermediate router decides ...

It's been 20 years since the Internet Engineering Task Force, or IETF, published the first request for comments leading to the development of IPv6. Last year, the IETF published its latest IPv6 ...