Two messages have been defined for router and prefix discovery: the router solicitation (RS) message and the router advertisement (RA) message. Routers advertise themselves periodically (with a slight ...

IPv6 is a powerful enhancement to IPv4 with features that better suit current and foreseeable network demands, including the following: IPv6 increases the number of address bits by a factor of 4, from ...

Whether your organization has deployed IPv6 or not, you may end up troubleshooting IPv6-related issues as other nodes on the Internet move to dual-protocol connectivity. We need to consider how the ...