期刊名称：Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：1992-8645
电子版ISSN：1817-3195
出版年度：2015
卷号：77
期号：2
出版社：Journal of Theoretical and Applied
摘要：The evolution of the Internet has effectively exhausted all unique addresses offered by the current IPv4 protocol. Hence, IPv6 has been developed in response to the predicted long-term demand for addresses by Internet users. This new IP version has a 128-bit address length, which is four times that of IPv4. As the two protocols have different formats and behaviors, efforts are needed to ensure they can directly communicate with each other. Some transition mechanisms have been proposed by IETF to enable IPv4 and IPv6 networks to coexist until the whole Internet is based on an IPv6 network. This paper discusses a general overview of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, along with IPv4 to IPv6 transition techniques on a campus network. Moreover, we summarize some of the IPv6 test-bed use cases. In addition, we describe a pure IPv6 real test-bed implementation scenario and discuss test results. Finally, we propose some major pre-activities for the design and implementation of an IPv6 network within a campus network.
