CASE STUDY: IPV6 TEST EXPERIMENTAL NETWORK (BOOTA INC.)

ESSENCE OF THE CASE

The following are the essentials of this case:

  • Because Solaris 8 supports IPv6, it can be used for training.

  • Both IPv4 and IPv6 can coexist. Therefore, the Solaris hosts can be used for other purposes as well.

Boota Inc. has installed Solaris 8 hosts on its network. Although the company does not plan to move to IPv6 at this point, training of staff is required. The company wants to use Solaris hosts to build an experimental network for staff training.

ANALYSIS

Moving to IPv6 is not required at this point because the industry has not yet matured to IPv6. However, this is a good time to get started toward this direction. IPv6 networks can be easily set up using Auto Discovery ...

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