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IPv6 : Theory, Protocol, and Practice, 2nd Edition
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Author: Pete Loshin
List Price: $49.95
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ISBN: 1558608109
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (12 December, 2003)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 876,406
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
An Excellent Overview of IPv6 - Concepts to Implementation
Pete Loshin, the author, excels at making advanced networking concepts clear and easy-to-understand for the IT or networking generalist. This should be the first book on IPv6 you read, and, unless you are an IPv6 development engineer, it may well be the only book on IPv6 you need to read.Unlike technical books that bury the reader in details from the outset, this book provides context first, starting with a brief overview of IPv6 and how it improves on IPv4 - the current widely-deployed global network protocol. This holistic approach to explaining IPv6 provides much more than reference material or detailed configuration-level information (although that level of detailed information is in the book too). Pete's latest book will help you really *understand* IPv6, from "what triggered the development of the new protocol", to "IPv6 basics", to "how to configure IPv6 network devices and host computers". Each major topic is covered - addressing, security, multicasting, QoS, neighbor discovery, autoconfiguration, mobility, transition, services, deployment planning, and futures (full disclosure: I contributed to this book). Considering the enormous success of the Internet and the pervasive native of IP-networking, and considering that IPv6 will be here soon and likely be *the* network protocol for the next 20 years, every IT professional should know something about it. This book is the way to get that knowledge.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent Introduction
There has been much talk about the Internet running out of IP addresses for several years now and how this "next generation" IP, IPv6 can help solve this problem. IPv6 is a streamlined version of the current IP version, IPv4 and among the topics this book covers is these various differences.The book starts off in the first few chapters with a "history" of IPv4 and the reasons why it needs to be updated, along with a brief "intro" to it. One thing I hadn't known about previously was the "Internet model" of internetworking, which as four levels instead of the standard seven with the OSI model. Also covered are reasons why IPv4 no longer "works" and then the origins of IPv6. One thing too about Ipv6 that because it is a streamlined version of IPv4, that items like headers and such are streamlined as well, some items necessary in IPv4 are not needed with IPv6. Other issues covered? Addressing, Routing, Security, related protocols, and transition strategies. IPv6 is already being implemented around the world and this book, albeit a bit dated at this point offers an excellent description of the "next generation" version of IP.
Rating: 5 out of 5
A great book for everybody who wants to learn IPV6
IPV6 Clearly Explained, is the book for anybody who would like to know what is IPV6 is all about. Instead of reading very "dry" RFCs to understand what are the issues that it IPV6 trys to solve and how it is done. One reads a clear description that also refers you to the actual RFCs. So I highly recommend this book for everyone. It also has an introduction of 4 chapters for IPV4 for folks who are not familiar with IP. I like the approach of the book and the way it is organized.
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