IPv6 notes

RFC'er

Addressering

• rfc2374 "An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format" (Obsoleted)
  • Obsoleted by rfc3587 "IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format"
• rfc1377 "IAB/IESG Recommendations on IPv6 Address Allocations to Sites" (Obsoleted)
  • Obsoleted by rfc6177 "IPv6 Address Assignment to End Sites"
• rfc2373 "IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture" (Obsoleted)
  • Obsoleted by rfc3513 "Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture" (Obsoleted)
    • Obsoleted by rfc4291 "IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture" (Updated)
      • Updated by rfc5952 "A Recommendation for IPv6 Address Text Representation" and rfc6052 "IPv6 Addressing of IPv4/IPv6 Translators"
• rfc3879 "Deprecating Site Local Addresses"
• See rfc4193 "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses"

Multicast adresser

• rfc4291 "IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture" defines new flags in rfc3306 "Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses" and rfc3956 "Embedding the Rendezvous Point (RP) Address in an IPv6 Multicast Address"
• rfc 3307 " Allocation Guidelines for IPv6 Multicast Addresses"

Allocation of IP addresses to End-Sites

• See rfc6177 "IPv6 Address Assignment to End Sites"
  • Section 2 on /48 and /56's

IPv4 to IPv6 Transition

• See rfc4038 "Application Aspects of IPv6 Transition"

ICMPv6

• rfc2463 "ICMPv6 for the IPv6 Specification" (Obsoleted)
  • Obsoleted by rfc4443 "ICMPv6 for the IPv6 Specification" (Updated)
    • Updated by rfc4884 "Extended ICMP to Support Multi-Part Messages"

Neighbor Discovery Protocol

• rfc2461 "Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)" (Obsoleted)
  • Obsoleted by rfc4861 "Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)" (Updated)
    • Updated by rfc5942 "IPv6 Subnet Model: The Relationship between Links and Subnet Prefixes"

Stateless Autoconfiguration

• rfc2462 "IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration" (Obsoleted)
  • rfc4862 "IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration"
• rfc5006 "IPv6 Router Advertisement Option for DNS Configuration" (Experimental)

DHCPv6

• rfc3315 "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)" (Updated)
  • Updated by rfc4361 "Node-specific Client Identifiers for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Version Four (DHCPv4)" (Updated)
    • Update4d by rfc5494 "IANA Allocation Guidelines for the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)"
  • Updated by rfc6221 "Lightweight DHCPv6 Relay Agent"

Routing

BGP

• rfc1771 "A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)" (Obsoleted)
  • Obsoleted by rfc4271 "A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)"
• rfc2858 "Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4" (Obsoleted)
  • Obsoleted by rfc4760 "Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4"

IS-IS

• rfc1195 "Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and Dual Environments" (Updated)
  • Updated by rfc 1339 "Type of Service in the Internet Protocol Suite" (Obsoleted)
    • Obsoleted by rfc2474 " Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers" (Updated)
      • Updated by rfc1455 "Physical Link Security Type of Service" (Obsoleted)
        • Obsoleted by rfc2474 " Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers" (Updated)
          • Updated by .....It

Tunneling IPv6 over IPv4

ISATAP

• rfc5214 "Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP)"

Easy to remember IPv6 adresses

The Google Public DNS IP addresses (IPv4) are as follows:

• 8.8.8.8
• 8.8.4.4

The Google Public DNS IPv6 addresses are as follows:

• 2001:4860:4860::8888
• 2001:4860:4860::8844