DirectAccess and IPv6

DirectAccess is designed on top of IPv6 and requires that all endpoint devices support IPv6. It is one of the first services to require this modern protocol.

DirectAccess is most likely to be deployed in an IPv4 world, given the prevalence of IPv4 on the Internet today. This creates an IPv4 gap (shown in Figure 24.9) across which IPv6 devices like DirectAccess clients need to communicate.

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Figure 24.9. The IPv4 gap between IPv6 devices.

Most organizations will need to use IPv6 transition technologies to bridge the IPv4 gap from their IPv6 enlightened devices to communicate. This, in effect, routes the IPv6 communications ...

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