Telematics Chapter 6: Network Layer - Freie Universität Berlin

IPv6: Characteristics
● Address size
● 128-bit addresses (8 groups of each 4 hexadecimal numbers)
● Improved option mechanism
● Simplifies and accelerates the processing of IPv6 packets in routers
● Auto-configuration of addresses
● Dynamic allocation of IPv6-addresses
● Improvement of the address flexibility
● Anycast address: Reach any one out of several
● Support of the reservation of resources
● Marking of packets for special traffic
● Security mechanisms
● Authentication and Privacy
● Simpler header structure:
● IHL: redundant, no variable length of header by new option mechanism
● Protocol, fragmentation fields: redundant, moved into the options
● Checksum: Already done by layer 2 and 4
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