Chapter 19. Deploying IPv6 on an Intranet

At the end of this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

  • Describe the major planning issues for deploying IPv6 on an existing IPv4-only intranet for platform and application support, connectivity, name resolution, security, and controlled or prioritized delivery.

  • List and describe the major steps to deploying native IPv6 connectivity on an IPv4-only intranet.

Introduction

Chapters Chapter 1 through Chapter 18 describe IPv6 from the protocol definition, protocol operation, and security perspectives along with its support in Windows. Although much of this information is well known by IPv6 experts, few enterprise networks have the experience of deploying IPv6 on a large scale. This chapter describes ...

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