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Difference Between IPv4 and IPv6 Protocols

IPv4 vs IPv6 Protocols Posted by Andrew on Dec 29, 2010 | 0 Comments

Internet Protocol

IP (Internet Protocol) is defined in IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) RFC791 (Request for Comments) in
1981. IP is a connectionless protocol used in packet switched communication networks. IP provides transmission
of data from one host to another, where host is identified with a unique number called IP address. IP does not
support guaranteed delivery or maintain sequence of delivery. It operates to deliver with best effort so, it falls
under best effort traffic in packet transmission networks. The layer above IP (TCP) will look after the guaranteed
delivery and sequencing of packets.
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IP address is a number given to uniquely identify a host in the computer network globally. In a real word example
you can think like a phone number with country code which is unique to reach a person. If Alice wants to call Bob,
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Alice will call Bob’s phone number, exactly in packet communication if Alice wants to send a packet to Bob; Alice
will send the packet to Bob’s IP address which is unique. These IP addresses are called public IP or real IP. Think
of a case where Alice is calling Bob’s office and punch the extension number to reach Bob, The extension number
cannot be reached from outside because this extension is private.(Ext 834929) , the same extension number can
exist in another company as well. (Company B Ext 834929). It is like same in IP world also there are Private IP
addresses which is being used inside a private network. This is not directly reachable from outside and its not
unique too.

IPv4

Defined in RFC 791

This is a 32 bit number to identify hosts. So the total address space is 232 which is nearly equal s to 4×109. IP is
operated in classful and classless concepts to overcome the shortage of addresses. Classful network is an
addressing plan to identify the network and the hosts of the networks. IPv4 has 5 classes A, B, C, D and E. In
class A, first 8bits of 32 bits identifies the network and Class B it’s the first 16 bits and in class C it’s 24 bits. If you
consider a class C address first 24 bits identify the network part and the last 8 bits to identify the hosts in that
particular network. In theory, a class C network can contain only 28 which is 256 hosts.

Because of the limitation of address space, CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) is introduced in 1993. Rather
having a fixed network part and host part, CIDR introduces variable length of network and host part with relevant
subnet masks.
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IPv6 is introduced to overcome the shortage of IP address space. IPv6 is a 128 bit number with address space of POSTS COMMENTS
2128 (about 3.4×1038). This gives the flexibility to overcome the addressing space issues and routing traffic.
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Address Format:

Here in IPv6 first 64 bits defines the network part and the rest of the 64 bits is host address part. IPv4 is Trending Posts
represented in 4 blocks of 8 bit binary whereas IPv6 is represented by 8 groups of 16 bit hexadecimal values
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Example: 2607:f0d0:1002:0051:0000:0000:0202:0004 Difference Between Apple iPhone 4 and iPhone 5

Further for easy use, it can be abbreviated with the following rules Difference Between the AT&T iPhone 4 and the Verizon
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(1) Leading zeroes within a 16-bit value may be omitted
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(2) Single occurrence of consecutive groups of zeroes within an address may be replaced by a double colon
iPhone 4
So 2607:f0d0:1002:0051:0000:0000:0202:0004 can be written as follows
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2607:f0d0:1002:0051:0000:0000:0202:0004
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Main features of IPv6 Bionic and HTC Thunderbolt

(1) Large address space, since it’s 128 bit Difference Between Android Honeycomb Tablet Motorolo
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(2) Enhanced supports to Multicast

(3) Support for Network Layer Security

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(4) Mobility Supported
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(5) Extensible header if necessary
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(6) Bigger Size payloads supported in IPv6 if network supports bigger MTU. (Jumbograms)
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Summary:
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(1) IPv4 is 32bit address space where as IPv6 has 128bit address space.
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(2) CIDR was introduced for optimized usage of IPv4
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(3) IPv4 format is four Octect and IPv6 is 8 block Hexadecimal.

(4) Even though IPv4 supports limited multicast, IPv6 is extensively supporting Multicast Difference Between White Tea and Green Tea

(5) IPv6 avoid triangular routing, since it supports Mobility Difference Between Coke and Pepsi

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(7) IP tunneling is used for IPv4 and IPv6 interconnection at the moment. Difference Between Marines and Army

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