Introduction to IPv6
Vancouver Linux Users Group
http://www.vanlug.bc.ca
Mon, 15 February 2010 7:30 - 9:00 pm
** BCIT, Building SW1 Room 1025 **
_A special two meeting presentation!_
Andrew Daviel: Introduction to IPv6
The Internet Protocol, version 4 (IPv4), with its familiar dotted-quad
addresses, is 30 years old. It works fairly well, but there's a
problem - there are not enough addresses, and within a couple of years
they will run out. A new version of the protocol (IPv6) was introduced
in 1995, which has a vastly larger address space, but it is
incompatible and implementation has been slow. I will talk about the
basic concepts, and business case for IPv6 deployment.
_And on Monday 15 March 2010_
Andrew Daviel: IPv6 Networking
The Internet Protocol, version 6 (IPv6), is designed as a replacement
for the familiar version 4. I will talk about the basic addressing
concepts,and show some common tools (ping, traceroute, Wireshark)
running on an IPv6 network. While IPv6 is largely transparent to the
end user, there are significant implications for network
administrators, security managers, and application programmers.
About our speaker:
Andrew Daviel is the Network Security Manager at TRIUMF, where he also
has responsibilities for videoconferencing, email, PKI and DNS. He
graduated in Physics+Electronics at the University of Manchester when
they still used punch cards, and worked on computer-assisted sonar in
the UK before moving to Canada in 1981. He built his first home
computer in 1978 and has been a Linux user since 1994.
Comments
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