Back in 1966, when the United States military invented the ARPA network program, who would have thought that the internet would eventually become so pervasive, not only throughout the United States, but also the world? Most everyone I know has a computer (a laptop or desktop), a tablet, an internet enabled game device like PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, or a smart phone. Some even have all of the above! What most people don’t realize is that with each one of those devices, you have to have an IP address to ensure that you can connect to the internet. Because more and more people around the world are using more internet enabled devices, the world is very quickly running out of IP addresses.
History of IPv6 Up until very recently, every
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IPv6 Address Format As mentioned earlier, there is a huge difference in how IPv6’s address is notated. An example of an IPv6 address would be: 2001: cdba:0000:0000:0000:0000:3257:9652
The hexadecimal address consists of eight sets of four numbers or letters separated by colons. Each four digit set of zeros can either be reduced to a single zero or left out altogether. Blocks of zeros are shown as double colons. So the IPv6 address above can be notated in these 3 ways (5): 2001:cdba:0000:0000:0000:0000:3257:9652
2001:cdba:0:0:0:0:3257:9652
2001:cdba::3257:9652
DHCP Servers in Linux Configured To Use IPv6 Most modern versions of Linux already have IPv6-ready kernels. This capacity is usually listed as a module. The module may not be automatically loaded upon startup of the Linux machine. So you may have to manually load it yourself. First you’ll need to check to see if your Linux model is currently running the IPv6 kernel, by typing in the following: /proc/net/if_inet6
If your Linux model is running IPv6 kernel, you will get this message: # test -f /proc/net/if_inet6 && echo "Running kernel is IPv6 ready"
If the test fails then you will have to manually load the IPv6 kernel by typing the following: # modprobe ipv6
If it loads successfully you’ll get this message: # lsmod |grep -w 'ipv6 ' && echo "IPv6 module successfully loaded"
Stateless Auto configuration can be enabled by typing in the following: (6) # ip -6
The reason why the address is longer in v6 is because it can support over 340 undecillion IP addresses. Mainly because the IPv6 has potential to have problems just like the IPv4 address problems. Also, the IPv6 has been broken down into geographical locations, meaning that the address can be tracked to a specific location in the world. The downfall in this part, in my opinion, in a hacker’s point of view, is that you can breakdown a specific location where you would want to attack, if you know the geographic location of the hexadecimal in the address. What I mean is that you can know the country code in the IPv6 address and focus your attack in that specific location. Having a random order of the v6 address would make it more reliable and more secure but also would allow disorder, not knowing where specific address might be located.
we need to have a IP address for the purpose of connectivity and that IP address should be unique to due increase in the usage the exhaustion of IP address in IPv4 has occurred. IPv4 can be utilized for the interface of many advanced gadgets on the internet it can be utilized to unite the combine the computer based gagjets with the system.In the year February 2011 each organization is responsible for assigning their own IP addreses and
Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) IPv4 is a connectionless protocol for use on packet-switched networks. It is the fourth version of the Internet Protocol (IP), that is one of the core protocols of standards-based internetworking methods in the Internet. It was the first version deployed for production in the ARPANET in 1983. It still used to routing most Internet traffic today, eventhough we have the next version of it,IPv6.
4. Which feature is an integral part of IPv6, where as it was an optional feature under IPv4? IPSec
IP addresses can be used by more than one system, reducing the total number of IP addresses needed. This conservation of addresses is important because the Internet is quickly running out of IPv4 addresses. Although a particular IP address can be used by only one system at a time, many enduser systems require addresses only occasionally, when they connect to the Internet. By reusing IP addresses, DHCP lengthens the life of the IPv4 protocol. DHCP applies to IPv4 only, as IPv6 forces systems to configure their IP addresses automatically (called autoconfiguration) when they connect to a network (page 373).
RFC 1180: This RFC is based on a tutorial of TCP/IP protocol. The focus of this tutorial is to tell how the datagram is forwarded from source to destination. The distribution of this memo is unlimited. This RFC defines the key points of TCP/IP, it completely skips the history and development of TCP/IP. It just gives a minimum information related to TCP/IP which is only understandable by technical
2. How many bits are in an IPv4 IP address? In an IPv6 IP address?
IPv6 uses NDP (Neighbor Discovery Protocol) to find the MAC address. NDP manages interaction between nodes via message exchanges. These messages provide the data necessary for the processes of host auto configuration and packet transmission on a local link. Host auto configuration involves separate tasks of Parameter discovery, address auto configuration and duplicate address detection. Packet discovery is facilitated through router discovery process. It obtains the necessary parameters required for host configuration. Duplicate address detection is used to detect the presence of duplicate addresses on the same link. Packet transmission process requires data which can be obtained by router discovery, prefix discovery, address resolution, neighbor
To outface this problem Network Address Translation (NAT) method is used. This enables devices with private addresses to be connected to a public network address (e.g. Internet). This private address is converted to legal IP address, through NAT routers before traveling 11 “outside”. (See figure 4). Every device that is connected to the network has a unique IP address but this doesn’t mean that is permanent. Because devices connected to the network,
derive exclusively from the IP layer in the network model. For instance, IPv6 does not
The world of technology is dynamic. Technology has been revolutionized to its current status of industry four. This has seen various changes in the information technology, in the previous time the Internet Protocol 4 (IPV 4) was used to identify the IP address. Times have changes leading to the development of IPV 6 which can handle multiple addresses at a time. The IPV 6 handles 3.4 x 1038 addresses at a single time. This recommendable since the world has evolved to use of digital systems that require IP addresses every time. This paper explains the effects of technology developments, benefits and the flaws involved. The development of technology has been used in various industrial fields that include, industrial production, aquatic study, and research, smart lighting among others.
A term "hole" is referred as partially assembled datagram that consists of certain sequences of octets that have already arrived, and the certain area still to come is known as "hole". To illustrate a simple mechanism for the tracking, management, and manipulation of holes between data chunks is referred to as per definition. For instance, when the earliest fragment of the datagram arrives, it may be being by creating an empty data buffer area add that entry in its hole descriptor list and that datagram entry is known as a missing entry. Therefore, a hole can be represented in a zero packet, which is an empty packet, and a hole that equals infinity is considered a very large integer, greater than 576 bytes.
The TCP/IP protocols are the heart and soul of the Internet, and they describe the fundamental rules that govern all communications in the network. The original address system of the Internet is Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) developed IPv6 to deal with the long-anticipated problem of IPv4 address exhaustion. However, IPv6 is not foreseen to supplant IPv4 instantaneously.
IPv4 addressing is the next method, it’s is split up into two main parts as well Network I.D and Host I.D which are split over four octets which are written as four decimal numbers which have 32 bits, it only contains 4.3billion different IPs. For example, you sent an IP to a website and it sends its IP back, which means you can communicate. Whereas IPv6 addressing has 128 bits and is written as