A practical, hands-on guide to the new version of the Internet Protocol, written for network administrators and managers who will work with IPv6.

The ESP and AH headers look the same, whether used in IPv4 or IPv6, but the way those headers are attached to the IP header differs significantly. This chapter introduces the concept of using ...

IP breaks down data into smaller packets, so that it can transmit over a network smoothly. There are currently two versions of Internet Protocol: IPv4 (IP version 4) and IPv6 (IP version 6). IPv4 is ...