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HTML
192 lines
2.7 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
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><TITLE
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>IPv6</TITLE
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NAME="GENERATOR"
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK
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REL="HOME"
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TITLE="Linux Mobile IPv6 HOWTO"
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HREF="index.html"><LINK
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TITLE="Introduction"
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HREF="intro.html"><LINK
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TITLE="Mobile IPv6 for Linux"
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HREF="mipv6.html"></HEAD
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>Linux Mobile IPv6 HOWTO</TH
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><H1
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NAME="IPv6"
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>2. IPv6</H1
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>IP version 6 (IPv6) is a new version of the Internet Protocol,
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designed as the successor to IP version 4 (IPv4) <A
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HREF="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc791.txt"
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TARGET="_top"
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>[RFC-791]</A
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>. The
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changes from IPv4 to IPv6 fall primarily into the following
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categories:
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</P
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><UL
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><LI
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>Expanded addressing capabilities </P
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>Header format simplification</P
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>Improved support for extensions and options</P
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>Flow labeling capability</P
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>Authentication and privacy capabilities</P
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><EM
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>You should have basic knowledge of IPv6 stateless
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auto-configuring to fully understand how 'mobile IPv6' (MIPv6)
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works. You can read up on IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
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in <A
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HREF="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2462.txt"
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TARGET="_top"
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>[RFC2462]</A
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>.
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</EM
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</P
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>For more information on IPv6 in general, visit the <A
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HREF="http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ipv6-charter.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>IETF's IPv6
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Working Group</A
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>Introduction</TD
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>Mobile IPv6 for Linux</TD
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