Chapter 25

1. C. NAT, specifically the PAT feature that allows many hosts to use private IPv4 addresses while being supported by a single public IPv4 address, was one short-term solution to the IPv4 address exhaustion problem. IP version 5 existed briefly as an experimental protocol and had nothing to do with IPv4 address exhaustion. IPv6 directly addresses the IPv4 address exhaustion problem, but it is a long-term solution. ARP has no impact on the number of IPv4 addresses used.

2. A. Routers use the same process steps when routing IPv6 packets as they do when routing IPv4 packets. Routers route IPv6 packets based on the IPv6 addresses, listed inside the IPv6 header in the IPv6 packets, by comparing the destination IPv6 address to the router’s ...

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