IPv6 Core Protocols Implementation

1 Introduction

1.1 Introduction

The KAME network software has been regarded as a rock-solid, working reference to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) by network engineers. As the Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) source code of the BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) operating systems greatly helped people understand how the Internet protocol works, and as [Ste94] greatly helped people understand the BSD’s networking implementation, we aim in this book to describe IPv6, from its specification to operation, using the KAME software implementation.

In this chapter, we present general background information and set the context for subsequent chapters. We begin with a brief history of IPv6 and the KAME project. We then introduce the general network ...