IPv6: Theory, Protocol, and Practice (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

it helped me complete my CCNP and prepare for CCIE it is full if good information to help you pass

This book is an excelent introduction to the IPv6 protocol. The author always compares IPv4 with IPv6, showing which are the improvements and the good solutions.In other words, it is possible to understand why the IPv6 is necessary, and what are the changes made from IPv4. The only problem of this book is the appendix, 50 pages of RFCs index and texts....

The book is ok to get some basics about IPV6 and a lot about IPV6 history. I read the book and I did learn some. I would think there are books out there that are newer. I think the latest date in the book is 2004. When the book discusses computers, the references are for Vista as the newest release.I also think the book could be about 1/2 the size.

Pete Loshin, the author, excels at making advanced networking concepts clear and easy-to-understand for the IT or networking generalist. This should be the first book on IPv6 you read, and, unless you are an IPv6 development engineer, it may well be the only book on IPv6 you need to read.Unlike technical books that bury the reader in details from the outset, this book provides context first, starting with a brief overview of IPv6 and how it improves on IPv4 - the current widely-deployed global network protocol. This holistic approach to explaining IPv6 provides much more than reference material or detailed configuration-level information (although that level of detailed information is in the book too).Pete's latest book will help you really *understand* IPv6, from "what triggered the development of the new protocol", to "IPv6 basics", to "how to configure IPv6 network devices and host computers". Each major topic is covered - addressing, security, multicasting, QoS, neighbor discovery, autoconfiguration, mobility, transition, services, deployment planning, and futures (full disclosure: I contributed to this book).Considering the enormous success of the Internet and the pervasive native of IP-networking, and considering that IPv6 will be here soon and likely be *the* network protocol for the next 20 years, every IT professional should know something about it. This book is the way to get that knowledge.

There has been much talk about the Internet running out of IP addresses for several years now and how this "next generation" IP, IPv6 can help solve this problem. IPv6 is a streamlined version of the current IP version, IPv4 and among the topics this book covers is these various differences.The book starts off in the first few chapters with a "history" of IPv4 and the reasons why it needs to be updated, along with a brief "intro" to it. One thing I hadn't known about previously was the "Internet model" of internetworking, which as four levels instead of the standard seven with the OSI model. Also covered are reasons why IPv4 no longer "works" and then the origins of IPv6.One thing too about Ipv6 that because it is a streamlined version of IPv4, that items like headers and such are streamlined as well, some items necessary in IPv4 are not needed with IPv6. Other issues covered? Addressing, Routing, Security, related protocols, and transition strategies.IPv6 is already being implemented around the world and this book, albeit a bit dated at this point offers an excellent description of the "next generation" version of IP.

This book presents IPv6 in an organized way. It explains how it works and what problems it solves. It's a nice book for students and if you know nothing about it, you don't need other books.

IPV6 Clearly Explained, is the book for anybody who would like to know what is IPV6 is all about. Instead of reading very "dry" RFCs to understand what are the issues that it IPV6 trys to solve and how it is done. One reads a clear description that also refers you to the actual RFCs. So I highly recommend this book for everyone. It also has an introduction of 4 chapters for IPV4 for folks who are not familiar with IP. I like the approach of the book and the way it is organized.

This book is for novices who has very little knowledge on IPv4 and now trying to know something about IPv6. My sincere advice to any serious reader on IPv6 would be, never go for this book. It gives no information but stories about how internet evolved and kind of stuff. And anybody who is working deeply on IPv4 would know that. And this book gives fifty to sixty pages of printed RFCs, may be to make the book bulky.

It is really good !

This has to be part of any Network Engineer library.

This is a thoroughly researched and well written guide to IPv6.The different aspects of the technology are well laid out and, mostly, clearly explained. The material stays faithful to the source RFCs, which are all clearly referenced to allow the reader to explore topics further if they wish.The practical sections are informative and useful.All in all, it's great, but....The 2nd Edition was published in 2003 and it could really do with a 3rd Edition. This version doesn't capture major changes and additions to IPv6 that have happened since 2003. For instance, although the text mentions the Global Routing Prefix format for unicast addresses it doesn't cover the standardised address assignment policies agreed by the Regional Internet Registries that governs the way those addresses are actually allocated. It also doesn't capture important additions such as the additional Extension Header defined for Mobile IPv6.So, 5 stars for the material that's there but 2 stars deducted as a warning to potential buyers that the content is a little stale.