9.3. Summary
IPv6 has many new things for you to learn and challenges to face in the future. Just when you were starting to get comfortable with IPv4, here I am telling you that there is a whole new protocol suite to learn. I started with the reasons why a new protocol suite is needed. While there are many compelling reasons to swap, ultimately your decision to change is going to come down to money or the fact that you just can't put any more hosts on the network. Even then, I don't know if some people will want to change.
The new addressing structures are exciting for me. I like that fact that I don't have to subnet anymore. The logic in the new address range is great because not as many addresses are wasted and there will be plenty of addresses ...
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