IPv6

• Initial motivation: 32-bit address space completely allocated by 2008.

• Additional motivation:

  • header format helps speed processing/forwarding
  • header changes to facilitate QoS
  • new “anycast” address: route to “best” of several replicated servers

• IPv6 datagram format:

  • fixed-length 40 byte header
  • no fragmentation allowed

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