IPv6 Internet Connections
Not only is IPv6 rapidly being adopted inside enterprise networks, but it is also increasingly being used for connecting enterprises out to the public Internet. Interestingly, connecting to an Internet service provider (ISP) using IPv6 (as opposed to IPv4) comes with some new security concerns, and network engineers need to be aware of these new threats and have strategies to mitigate them.
Therefore, this section begins with a look at how an ISP might assign an IPv6 address to one of its customer’s Internet-facing routers. Then, a configuration example is presented, showing how to assign an IPv6 address to an Internet-facing router, and how to configure that router with a default gateway that points to the IPv6 address ...
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