Transcript IPv4 to IPv6 Migration strategies

IPv4 to IPv6 Migration strategies
What is IPv4
 Second revision in development of internet
protocol
 First version to be widely implied.
 Connection less protocol used for packetswitched link layer networks (e.g. Ethernet)
 Uses 32 bit addresses which are equivalent to
4,294,967,296 possible unique addresses
What is IPv6
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Version designed to succeed IPv4.
First publicly used IP since 1981.
Protocol for packet-switched internetworking.
IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF).
 Uses 128 bit addresses , much bigger than IPv4.
Introduction
 Global shortage of IP addresses
 IP addresses have greater demands
 Despite NAT (network address translation) IPv4
addresses are likely to run out in next few years
 Need a fair policy for allocation of remaining IP
addresses.
 Deployment of IPv6 needed on urgent basis
Problems of IPv4
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Fixed length, 32 bit scheme
Managed by IANA
Low government involvement
Need for international cooperation
Policy for addresses was for first come, first
serve.
 Pre occupation of large amount of addresses by
early users
What’s good about IPv6?
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Bigger address space
No need of NAT
Full IP connectivity
Facilitates mobile devices
Allows roaming between different networks
Built in security system
Unicast ,multicast, anycast (types of addresses)
IPv6 Deployment
 Mobile/wireless connections are growing at very
fast rate.
 Will provide larger availability of mobile
networks
 It is good for mobile networks for its low cost,
 Higher speed of deployment
 For wireless, larger IP address is required.
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 Allocation of IPv6 is same as of IPv4.
 Actual conditions are growing fast but still low
and unbalanced
Migration to IPv6
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Dual stack (IPv4 and IPv6 running at same time)
End nodes and routers run both at a time
Tunneling
Carry one protocol inside another
IPv6 encapsulated in IPv4 and sent to portions of
network
 Protocol translation will translate IPv6 packets
into IPv4 packets
Pictorial explanation of Migration
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