BSIT 220-T301 Week 6 Blog

 Hello again! 


Welcome to week 6 of Network Management and Infrastructure! 


This week we learned a lot about IPv6 and the uses, formatting, prefixes and suffixes, and the differences between IPv6 and IPv4. IPv6 offers so many more unique addresses than IPv4. While IPv4 offers around 4.3 billion addresses, IPv6 offers 360 undecillion addresses. That's a 1 followed by 66 zeros!!! While IPv4 is 32-bit, IPv6 is 128-bits. IPv4 is expressed in decimals 192.168.0.1, separated by dots, and IPv6 is expressed in hexadecimal separated by colons (2001:0db8:3333::5555:6666:7777:8888). IPv4 can be manually or dynamically assigned via DHCP while IPv6 is assigned automatically through stateless or SLAAC. Another big difference between IPv4 and IPv6 is the implementation of IPsec. IPsec is Internet Protocol Security. It secures communications by authenticating and encrypting each packet. It provides a framework for ensuring data confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity, transmitted over IP networks.

There are more differences between IPv4 and IPv6 than I can write about. The main one is that IPv4 is the past and IPv6 is the future! 

Thank you for stopping by this week and I look forward to updating you more in the coming weeks! Have a great week!


Derek 


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