IPv6

Network layer
• IPv4
• Host-to-host communication
• Deficiencies

1. The IP address space is managed globally by the Internet Assigned

Numbers Authority (IANA), and by five regional Internet registries (RIR)
responsible in their designated territories for assignment to end users
and local Internet registries, such as Internet service providers. The
main market forces that accelerated IPv4 address depletion included
the rapidly growing number of Internet users, always-on devices, and
mobile devices.
2. Minimum delay strategies and reservation of resources not provided

3. No encryption or authentication is provided by IPV4

IPV6 – Internetworking protocol version 6

Ipng – Internetworking protocol, next generation

Changes made in format, length, network layer protocols, routing

protocols.

Adoption of IPv6 is slow

Advantages
• Larger address space

• Better header format

• New options

• Allowance for extension

• Support for resource allocation (flow label)

• Support for security

IPv6 datagram header and payload
Packet format • For IPv6 version no is 6

• Priority with respect to congestion

• Flow label control flow of data

• Length of the IP datagram in payload

length

• Next header follows the base header

• Hop limit is life time of packet

• Source address is of 128 bit IP of

original source

• Destination address is of 128 bit IP of

final destination, in source routing its
next router
Next header code for IPv6
Priority for congestion controlled traffic
0-doesnot define a priority

1-delivering of a news in
background

2-not waiting, email.

4-waiting, FTP and HTTP

6-User interaction TELNET

7-OSPF RIP SNMP

Flow label
• Sequence of packet from source to destination
• Special handling by routers is called flow of packets
• Same characteristics
• Same path, same resources, same kind of security and so on
• Flow label table
• Service provided by referring the entry in the flow label table
• Speed up the processing of the router
• Real time protocol(RTP) and Resource Reservation Protocol(RSVP)
• 1.1 and 2^24-1
• 2.zero
• 3.same flow, then same source same destination and same options.