Hi, > I'm dipping my toe into the world of IPv6 and I'm looking for > recommendations on resources - books, design guides, white papers, > tutorials etc.
there are a few IPv6 books out there - from the cisco offerings to third party and usual stalwart publishers. they should get you well versed on the subject. yes, address space is bigger - but its the other things that will get you .. uses multicast to do everything, ICMPv6 is very very important for operation of hosts, SLAAC is the 'easy way' to get addresses from the router - your DHCP server may well not do DHCPv6 (and if it does, the clients probably dont! ;-) ) so how do you record/manage hosts? what about reverse records - you going to have 65k of entries for each /64 that you deal with? ACLs and switch behaviour - and what about end point protection - theres a good layer of ipv4 protection on particualr cisco access layer switches now - but the ipv6 is lacking. likewise management - its a big big shame that cisco havent gone full-on with mgmt in IPv6 - theres no reason why the mgmt of your switches/APs etc cant all be in IPv6 and you have no IPv4 on those nets....but no.. latest IOS has some mgmt functions that work over IPv6.. not bad considering how long v6 has been around before. my take home message? you can leanr a WHOLE LOT more about it by having a dev/test router, a couple of VLANs and home hosts (oh, be sure to tick the IPv6 box in VMware if you are virtualised with it ;-) ) alan _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
