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Part I: Overview of and Justification for IPv6

The Internet has been growing at a very fast rate during the last ten years. The Internet runs over IP version 4 (IPv4), but this protocol was designed 20 years ago for a few hundred computers. This part of the book explains why an upgrade of the IPv4 protocol is needed. It also presents the justifications for and the main benefits of the IP version 6 (IPv6) protocol.

The following chapter comprises this part of the book:

Chapter 1 Introduction to IPv6

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