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• IPv6 Addressing for Troubleshooting

  IPv6 and the addresses are big and difficult to remember. Upon initial configuration of network gear, it is tempting to use the EUI-64 encoding ( article with a definition of EUI-64 by Wendell Odom ) and let the device create the interface identifier... Posted Jun 16 2008, 03:56 PM by tslattery with | with no comments Filed under: ipv6, EUI-64 addressing, IPv6 address encoding

• IPv6 Management

  Network World just did an article on network management of IPv6 in which Netcordia was mentioned. ( Where eight network management vendors stand on IPv6 ) Of course, a short interview doesn’t provide much opportunity to say much about a reasonably complex... Posted Sep 17 2007, 01:24 PM by tslattery with | with no comments Filed under: network world, ipv6, snmp

• IPv6 Security

  One of the security factors I’ve heard espoused about IPv6 is that the large address space (128 bits: 64 bits of network and 64 bits of host address) makes it impossible to scan the network for hosts. On initial inspection, this seemed like a reasonable... Posted Sep 04 2007, 09:21 AM by tslattery with | with no comments Filed under: Network Topology Discovery, network discovery, security, network design, ipv6