Basic Networking
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An IP address is a unique address that identifies a device on the internet or a local network. IP stands for "Internet Protocol," which is the set of rules governing the format of data sent via the internet or local network.
IPv6 is a type of internet protocol that routes traffic across the internet. It was mainly developed to resolve the address exhaustion issue faced by the IPv4. The IPv4 address is?a 32-bit number that uniquely identifies a network interface on a machine.
Advantages?of ipv6 over ipv4
1.More efficient routing: IPv6 reduces the size of routing tables, which makes routing more hierarchical and therefore more efficient.
2.Increased Capacity: Since IPv6 is based on 128 bit addressing scheme, it provides more address space compared to a standard IPv4 addressing. The length of the network and host components are doubled. Even if there are more web addresses, it can be easily accommodated because the resources are allocated efficiently.
3.Mobility: IPv6 provides seamless connections when devices are moved from one location to another. This is achieved by avoiding triangular routing where connections to the proxies are sent even before transferring to the host. Hence, without any renumbering, all the subnets are moved to a new router.
4.Simplified Network Configuration: Address auto-configuration (address assignment) is built in to IPv6. A router will send the prefix of the local link in its router advertisements. A host can generate its own IP address by appending its link-layer (MAC) address, converted into Extended Universal Identifier (EUI) 64-bit format, to the 64 bits of the local link prefix.
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