Another major concept concerns routing. IPv6 uses RA (Router Advertisement) instead of DHCP for address assignment. Local clients receive a globally routable prefix, meaning each device can ...

help route data packets, and serve as identification within the network. IP breaks down data into smaller packets, so that it can transmit over a network smoothly. There are currently two versions of ...

Particular attention will be paid to the proper order and use of header extensions, as well as discussion of the use of jumbograms, hop-by-hop options, destination options, routing, and fragmentation ...

Although IPv6 was introduced in the early 90s as a ... to provide layers upon layers of routing on top of IPv4 within a content-centric Internet (as with e.g. content distribution networks ...