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    The document discusses the basics of IPv6 including what was previously known about IPv6 and the need to transition to IPv6. IPv4 address space will be exhausted by 2010-2012. IPv6 was developed to support more IP addresses using 128-bit addresses instead of 32-bit in IPv4 and a new header. Current workarounds like NAT have limitations and issues that IPv6 aims to address.

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    1 Introduction

    IPv6 Basics, Version 1.2 e

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    1.1 What you already know................................................................3


    1.2 The Need for IPv6 .........................................................................4

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    1.1 What you already know

    In the Web Based Training TCP/IP Basics module 4 you were given a short introduction to
    the advantages of IPv6 compared to IPv4. We said that IPv4 - a protocol designed in the
    1980s will one day reach the limits of available address space. For this reason, IPv6 uses
    new IP addresses with 128 bits each, instead of the 32 bits used by IPv4.
    With new IP addresses on the Internet Layer a new header is introduced with IPv6 that
    occupies less space but offers maximum functionality. In this course we will dip deeper into
    the functions of this new exciting technology. Wherever possible we will compare IPV6 to
    IPv4 to understand the differences. As this course is an update training course it is
    recommended that you take some time to review at least module 3 (IP addressing) and
    module 4 (Internet Layer Protocols) of the TCP/IP Basics WBT. Perhaps you will find it useful
    to have the printed or PDF version handy so you can look things up on they occur in the
    course.

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    1.2 The Need for IPv6

    Current statistics show that IP address space will be finally exhausted sometime between
    2010 and 2012.
    You have learned already about several mechanisms that are currently in use to cope with
    this problem. These are Network Address Translation (NAT), private IP address space, and
    Classless Inter Domain Routing (CIDR) with Variable Length Subnet Masks (VLSM).
    Unfortunately these techniques have several problems. NAT breaks with the end-to-end
    nature of TCP/IP communication because addresses can be changed in packets as they
    traverse the network. Several application protocols cause problems when NAT is in use.
    As more and more companies interconnect their internal networks for collaborative work via
    Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), more and more IP address collisions occur because the
    same private address ranges are used in many company networks. Even CIDR cannot
    prevent the IPv4 address space from running out. And as smaller and smaller IP address
    ranges are assigned to internet provider customers, another problem occurs.
    As you remember, a router needs to contain a routing table to make a routing decision and
    forward a packet correctly. Routers connected to small networks have small routing tables
    and connect to the internet via a single default route. But if a router is linked to the internet
    core it needs a huge routing table that fills up more and more with smaller and smaller routes
    as CIDR is used to save IPv4 address space. This reduces routing performance because
    lookups take much longer. At the start of 2006, a current core router routing table holds more
    than 177.000 network entries and consumes more than 100 megabytes of memory.

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