This work offers an introduction to the addressing system defined in the release of TCP/IP, IPv6 and prepares system administrators to integrate IPv6 features into their Internet architecture.

Address Unknown: A Guide to IPv6 offers a complete overview and introduction to the requirements and features of IP addressing within TCP/IP Version 6. IPv6 is the latest version of the core Internet communications protocol TCP/IP. The current version, IPv4, will eventually give ground to IPv6. However, network analysts project that the two versions of TCP/IP will live together for the next few years. TCP/IP addressing in IPv4 is based on a 32-bit addressing scheme. IPv6 will enable 128-bit addressing thus increasing the number of potential addresses on the Internet and avoiding the dire predictions that the Internet will run out of addressing space in the near future. This book provides a complete introduction to the TCP/IP addressing system and prepares system administrators to integrate IPv6 features into their Internet architecture. This book will be of interest to all system administrators managing an IP network, consultants working on IPv6 systems, as well as network design engineers seeking to fully understand IPv6 addressing issues.

Chapter 1 Historical Introduction
RFC 1 Host Software
Chapter 2 The IAB, The IESG, and the IETF
Chapter 3 Net Growth
Chapter 4 Protocol Overview and IPv4
Chapter 5 Why 128-bit addressing?
RFC 1338 Supernetting: an Address Assignment and Aggregation Strategy
RFC 1519 Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address Assignment and Aggregation Strategy
RFC 1886 DNS Extensions to support IP version 6
RFC 2460 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
RFC 2461 Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)
RFC 2462 IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
RFC 2463 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
RFC 2464 Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks
RFC 2467 Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks
RFC 2471 IPv6 Testing Address Allocation
RFC 2472 IP Version 6 over PPP
RFC 2473 Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification
RFC 2474 Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
RFC 2491 IPv6 over Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA) networks
RFC 2492 IPv6 over ATM Networks
RFC 2497 Transmission of IPv6 Packets over ARCnet Networks
RFC 2529 Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels