Customer Reviews

Understanding IPv6

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This book takes the IT specialist or CS engineer through all of the areas affected by IPv6. You'd be hard pressed to find all of this information in 3 other books combined!
- Want to know what the IPv6 solution is to Private Internets and NATs?
- Want to know how an ad hoc IPv6 network for a home would work?
- Want to know how to apply for your own personal range of IPv6 addresses?
- Want to know what changes need to be made at the server level?
- Are you ready for IPSec?
All of this and much more is packed into this reference manual. Mine is already dog-eared and showing signs of wear. I had to write my name on it to keep it from "walking off."

Bottom line up front: If you are a programmer or are primarily interested in Linux, you can probably change the rating to "4 stars", simply because this book is oriented towards the Microsoft set, and is primarily focused on the features of IPv6 and networking, with no code samples.

Even so, if you are looking for a volume that covers all of the major aspects of IPv6 down to the packet level, this is a good place to start. CD-ROM includes PowerPoint slides and an "e-book" (in .chm format, sorry anti-Microsoft folks).

Basic breakdown of each chapter is to introduce a topic in generalities, and delve into specifics, offering syntax examples of commands, etc. in Windows format where appropriate.

Overall, this is a solid book. Given the shortage of "overview" style IPv6 books as of this writing, this book is a necessity (Microsofty or not) for your bookshelf if you will be implementing IPv6 any any form in the foreseeable future.

I got this book awhile back and just got it off the shelf for a refresher. I am most interested in multicast, but it says that IGMPv3 is an internet draft and the equivalent MLD doesn't exist yet. That may have been true 4 years ago when the book was published, but things have evolved since then. I think the same is true for some other areas, such as v4/v6 interop standards. This book is a decent primer and the price isn't bad, but it's old enough I'd go with something newer. I'm shopping for a replacement myself.

I was looking for an IPV6 to deploy under LINUX and believe it or not, Mordorsoft had the only real book on the topic! The book is clear, concise and well documented; well as much as it can be consdering that IPv6 is still very much a wip.

The Book was in brand new good condition.That aside, this book is not something i would recommend for IPv6. It is specific to Microsoft.

Way too much propaganda for Microsoft.

Misrepresents and/or misunderstands IPv4

Uses 1000 words when 100 will do.