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IPv4 to IPv6

mammador

mammador

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I run a training business, which has a central office with a server and clients for all staff members. All nodes, including workstations, routers, switches, printers, etc. have IPv4 addresses, but since IPv6 is online now, I want to be proactive and creating addressing schemes for the new version.

Is it simply a case of taking an IPv4 address and just converting it to an IPv6 address? I know that the classification system in IP6 is different to IP4, so how is this accounted for? As an example, most of my current IP4 addresses are class C. Do I have to individually determine each unicast, anycast and multicast address in IP6?
 
IPv4 and IPv6 have separate host and network addressing methods, so you can't simply convert an IPv4 address into an IPv6 address.

Addressing an IPv6 network is pretty simple.

Your provider will either assign you /64 prefix directly, or they'll give you a larger network that you'll subnet into multiple /64 networks.

Your router will advertise the /64 prefix to your local network, and your computers will automatically configure an address for themselves that combines your network prefix with the computer's MAC address. If you want to automatically assign things such as DNS servers, an internal domain name, time servers, etc. you can set up a DHCPv6 server.
 
Very little information provided.
Is your current network using a private IP address scheme, or does every device have a public IP (doubtful)?
Single or multiple locations?
If multiple, how are then interconnected?
Is your ISP even close to providing true IP6.

IPv4 is going to be around for a long long time.
 
MtnMan said:
Very little information provided.
Is your current network using a private IP address scheme, or does every device have a public IP (doubtful)?
Single or multiple locations?
If multiple, how are then interconnected?
Is your ISP even close to providing true IP6.

IPv4 is going to be around for a long long time.
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It is a private IP address scheme, and it is in multiple locations.
 
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