Planning for IPv6

Planning for IPv6

by Silvia Hagen
Released September 2011
Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ISBN: 9781449305390

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Book description

It's official: with IPv4 network addresses close to depletion, moving to IPv6 is now business critical. This concise book helps you plan for IPv6 integration by providing a high-level overview of the technical—and nontechnical—steps involved. Many of the challenges for your enterprise are on the organizational level, and solutions differ from company to company.

IPv6 Essentials author Silvia Hagen, a protocol analysis and directory service expert who's worked with IPv6 international groups and forums for 10 years, supplies answers to the issues most frequently discussed by the clients she consults. With this guide, IPv6 project leaders and planning team members learn how to develop a cohesive integration strategy for building the next-generation network.

  • Make a business case by focusing on the opportunities IPv6 offers
  • Create a high level design and conduct a network assessment
  • Develop a plan for evaluating vendors and products, and building labs and testing
  • Understand routing protocol choices, security designs, and DNS issues
  • Discover how to create an IPv6 address plan and manage IPv6 addresses
  • Learn the available integration and transition technologies, and the scenarios they cover

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
    1. Audience
    2. About This Book
    3. Assumptions This Book Makes
    4. Contents of This Book
    5. Conventions Used in This Book
    6. Using Code Examples
    7. Safari® Books Online
    8. How to Contact Us
    9. Acknowledgments
  2. 1. The Business Case
    1. The Inevitable Business Case Discussion
      1. The Human Capacity for Predictions and the Business Case of Evolution
      2. IPv6 Has No Immediate Business Case for Many
      3. IPv6 Has an Immediate Business Case for Some
      4. What You Lose If You Don’t Invest in IPv6
      5. Where Does Time Pressure Come From?
    2. Opportunities of IPv6 Integration
      1. How to Save Money when Integrating IPv6
      2. When You Outsource
    3. Summary
    4. Quote
  3. 2. Planning for IPv6
    1. Business Relevance
    2. What Are You Talking About?
      1. Core to Edge
      2. Edge to Core
      3. IPv6 Islands
    3. Planning and Deployment Methodologies
      1. How to Get Started
        1. Use existing change processes
        2. Network health and reality check
      2. Create an IPv6 Governance and Project Team
      3. Education and Consulting
      4. High-Level Concept
      5. Mind the Apps
    4. Ways to Get There
      1. Define IPv6 Requirements
      2. Network Assessment
      3. Evaluate Vendors, Products, and Service Providers
      4. Build Labs and Pilots
      5. Refine Your High-Level Strategy and Define Low-Level Deployment Plans
      6. The Golden Rule Set
    5. Choices and Designs
      1. Routing and Routing Protocols
        1. IGPs
        2. EGPs
      2. Address Plan
        1. What is new?
        2. Global addresses versus ULAs
        3. Network-level design approaches
        4. Configuration of interface IDs
      3. Security Design
        1. Is IPv6 more secure than IPv4?
        2. IPv6 security design
        3. Issues to watch for
      4. Procedures
        1. Using directory services for controlling access
      5. DNS Design
      6. Management Concept
      7. Address Management
      8. The Inevitable Word on NAT
      9. Summary
  4. 3. Integration and Transition Technologies
    1. Overview of the Integration and Transition Technologies
    2. Available Mechanisms
      1. Dual-Stack
      2. MPLS
      3. Tunneling
        1. 6to4
        2. 6rd
        3. ISATAP
        4. Teredo
        5. Tunnel broker
      4. NAT and Translation
        1. NAT terminology
        2. Large-Scale NAT
        3. NAT464
        4. DS-Lite
        5. Stateless NAT64
        6. Stateful NAT64 and DNS64
        7. NAT-PT
      5. How Can IPv6 Clients Reach IPv4 Content?
      6. Load Balancing
    3. Summary
  5. A. References
    1. References
  6. About the Author
  7. Colophon
  8. Copyright

Product information

  • Title: Planning for IPv6
  • Author(s): Silvia Hagen
  • Release date: September 2011
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9781449305390