Introduction to IPv6.ppt

Introduction to IPv6 Presented by: Minal Mishra Agenda IP Network Addressing Classful IP addressing Techniques to reduce address shortage in IPv4 Features of IPv6 Header Comparisons Extension Headers Conclusions IP Network Addressing INTERNET ? world’s largest public data network, doubling in size every nine months IPv4, defines a 32-bit address - 232 (4,294,967,296) IPv4 addresses available The first problem is concerned with the eventual depletion of the IP address space. Traditional model of classful addressing does not allow the address space to be used to its maximum potential. Classful Addressing When IP was first standardized in Sep 1981, each system attached to the IP based Internet had to be assigned a unique 32-bit address The 32-bit IP addressing scheme involves a two level addressing hierarchy Classful Addressing… Divided into 5 classes Class A 8 bits N/W id and 24 bits host id and so on B,C. Wastage of IP addresses by assigning blocks of addresses which fall along octet boundaries Techniques to reduce address shortage in IPv4 Subnetting Classless Inter Domain Routing (CIDR) Network Address Translation (NAT) Subnetting Three-level hierarchy: network, subnet, and host. The extended-network-prefix is composed of the classful network-prefix and the subnet-number The extended-network-prefix has traditionally been identified by the subnet mask Subnetting Example Classless Inter-Domain Routing Eliminates traditional classful IP routing. Supports the deployment of arbitrarily sized networks Routing information is advertised with a bit mask/prefix length? specifies the number of leftmost contiguous bits in the network portion of each routing table entry Example: /21 CIDR Table Entry… Extract the destination IP address. Boolean AND the IP address with the subnet mask for each entry in the routing table. The answer you get after ANDing is checked with the base address entry corresponding to the subnet mask entry with which the destination entry was Boolean