TABLE OF CONTENTS This section provides real-life, hands-on guidance for using IPv6. Starting with a chapter that covers strategies and tactics for planning the transition to an IPv6-enabled network, Part III continues with a chapter offering real-life guidance on enabling IPv6 support on popular network and server operating systems including Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, and Cisco s IOS. Other chapters offer step-by-step instructions for deploying email and DNS servers under IPv6 and for implementing security through firewalls and IPsec.
The final chapter addresses the issues of the current and future state of the art and science of IPv6 networking. [*]
[*]Chapter 20 was written by John E. Spence. Chapters 21-24 are adapted from materials published by Zama Networks, Inc., and written by Robert C. Zilbauer, Jr., Grant Furness, Gerald R. Crow, IV, Megan Ewers Roede, Jim Van Gemert, Brian Skeen, and Steve Smith.
The IETF is putting almost as much effort into developing a smooth transition process as they are into developing the protocol itself, and with good reason. The IPv6-enabled networks of the near future will offer many advantages over today s networks advantages that are sorely needed as the network platform takes on new applications and millions of new users. But with IPv4 widely deployed and running business-critical...
