[ipv6hackers] IPv6 security (slides and training)

Fred Bovy fred at fredbovy.com
Wed Nov 23 13:36:29 CET 2011


In the comparison I also like to compare IPv4 to X.25 and IPv6 to
Frame-Relay as wellŠ


>
>Owen made a good point by comparing IPv6/IPv4 to IP/IPX.  Measuring the
>ratio of IP to that of IPX would have made little sense as well.
>Comparing IP to that of IPX would have overlooked the need to deal with
>external routes.  This need shifted adoption to IP.  Comparing IPv6 to
>that of IPv4, there is a need to deal with more than 3.8 billion
>external unicast sources.  Announcement growth in IPv6, as measured in
>/64 prefix equivalents, has been exponential even though adequate block
>assignments allowed routing and network growth to remain fairly linear.





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