IPv6 Networking
Vancouver Linux Users Group
http://www.vanlug.bc.ca
Mon, 15 March 2010 7:30 - 9:00 pm
** BCIT, Building SW1 Room 1025 **
_Join us for the second half of Andrew's Presentation_
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.
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