Introduction to IPv6 for AFCAT 2020

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Topics

  • Introduction to IPv6

  • Address Format

  • Addressing Modes

  • Unicast Addressing Mode

  • Multicast Addressing Mode

  • Anycast Addressing Mode

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Introduction to IPv6

  • As IPv4 address space was limited , so IPv6 was developed to solve this problem of address space exhaustion.

  • IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6 ) is the latest version of Internet protocol.

  • It was developed by Internet Engineering Task Force(IETF).

  • It was developed mainly to deal with the problem of IPv4 exhaustion.

Address Format of IPV6

  • IPv6 address is of 128 bits, which is divided into 8 groups.

  • Each group consists of 16 bits and separated by colon(:) .

  • Each group is represented by 4 bit hexadecimal number.

  • Example :

IP6 Address

IP6 Address

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Address Format of IPV6 Contd

The Ipv6 Address is Divided into Two Parts

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The Network Component is Further Divided As

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Addressing Modes

  • IPv6 supports 3 types of addressing modes:

    • Unicast addressing mode

    • Multicast addressing mode

    • Anycast addressing mode

Unicast Addressing Mode

  • In this,IPv6 host is uniquely identified in network segment.

  • When router receives unicast IP packet , it sends out to interface that is connected to that particular host

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Multicast Addressing Mode

  • In this, all the hosts which are interested in multicast information are joined to multicast group first .

  • Multicast packet is received by all the hosts which are joined by multicast group.

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Anycast Addressing Mode

  • It’s a new addressing mode introduced by IPv6.

  • In this , multiple hosts are assigned same anycast IP addresses.

  • When a host wants to communicate to host with anycast IP address, it sends unicast message.

  • The unicast message is delivered to host closest to the sender.

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MCQ

Q1. IPv6 does not use _________ type of address.

Options:

A. Unicast

B. Broadcast

C. Multicast

D. None of the above

Answer: B

Q2. The size of IP address in IPv6 is:

Options:

A. 4 bytes

B. 128 bytes

C. 8 bytes

D. 100 bytes

Answer: B

  • We learnt about:

# Introduction IPv6

# Address Format

#Addressing Modes

#Unicast Mode

#Multicast Mode

# Anycast Mode