Hello IPv6: a minimal tutorial for IPv4 users
It might be a bit funny to call this post “Hello IPv6”, since the first draft of IPv6 was published in late 1998; however, it is ratified as a standard only in 2017. When I first heard about IPv6 many years ago, I thought it only provides a larger address space than IPv4. This is correct, but there is more. Even for a home network, or for a small network, there are some basic differences. Some of the terms, protocols etc. that was so much in use in IPv4, that most of us learned and maybe internalized, either radically changed or disappeared in IPv6.
It might be a bit funny to call this post “Hello IPv6”, since the first draft of IPv6 was published in late 1998; however, it is ratified as a standard only in 2017. When I first heard about IPv6 many years ago, I thought it only provides a larger address space than IPv4. This is correct, but there is more. Even for a home network, or for a small network, there are some basic differences. Some of the terms, protocols etc. that was so much in use in IPv4, that most of us learned and maybe internalized, either radically changed or disappeared in IPv6.
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