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IPv6 Clearly Explained

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This book is for novices who has very little knowledge on IPv4 and now trying to know something about IPv6. My sincere advice to any serious reader on IPv6 would be, never go for this book. It gives no information but stories about how internet evolved and kind of stuff. And anybody who is working deeply on IPv4 would know that. And this book gives fifty to sixty pages of printed RFCs, may be to make the book bulky.

This book is an excelent introduction to the IPv6 protocol. The author always compares IPv4 with IPv6, showing which are the improvements and the good solutions.In other words, it is possible to understand why the IPv6 is necessary, and what are the changes made from IPv4. The only problem of this book is the appendix, 50 pages of RFCs index and texts....

This is a good straightforward introduction to IPv6 for anyone, regardless of whether or not they know much about IP and TCP/IP in general. It explains the problems with IPv4, why IPv6 solves them, covers the issues involved in migrating, pretty much everything about IPv6. Even if you feel comfortable reading RFCs, this book can still help as a quick reference (and it clarifies stuff that isn't made clear in other IPv6/IPng books or in the RFCs either). I liked it.

This book presents IPv6 in an organized way. It explains how it works and what problems it solves. It's a nice book for students and if you know nothing about it, you don't need other books.

"Clearly Explained" is an excellent title, indeed. The novice and expert will both appreciate the information provided. Pete Loshin did a great job with this book.

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.

The current version of IP has been around for a long time, and it is clearly time for the next version! Loshin has done a superb job of describing IPv6, and this book is a great guide for anyone expecting to be involved in the Internet over the next 10 years!

this book provides a good intro to the protocol, but for more details, look into christian huitema's IPv6 2nd ed. and other rfc's.

I'm deeply amazed that Morgan Kaufmann let a book out with this bad of an editing job, it's not like them at all. From simple transpositions of figures (swapping the "simple" and "complex" network examples about 8 pages apart) to downright inaccurate figures (text talks about networks A, B, C and D; figure shows networks X, Y and Z) the illustrations are by far the most confusing part of the text. There are however a number of textual errors as well many of them subtle problems in technical content, my favorite example being an IPv6 address displayed with *two* double colons in it, and no, that wasn't in the example of invalid addresses.

The redeeming feature is actually the non-technical content, such as the introductory materials that explain why IPv6 is where it still is today, and how it can move forward, or the project/migration management aspects of network administration that non-seasoned network hands will find accessible and useful.

Bottom line: those vaguely familiar with IPv6 already will notice a number of mistakes, but then they really don't need this book. Those not familiar with IP networking are bound to be confused, especially if they're trying to experiment along the way. Hopefully a second printing, after a thorough technical editorial review, will enable this book to be more than it is today.

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.