Planning for Network Deployment in Oracle^® Solaris 11.4

Planning for Using IPv6 Addresses

This chapter supplements Planning For Network Deployment by describing additional considerations when using IPv6 addresses on your network. If you do plan to use IPv6 addresses in addition to IPv4 addresses, ensure that your current ISP supports both address types.

This chapter contains the following topics:

• IPv6 Planning Tasks

• IPv6 Network Topology Overview

• Ensuring Hardware Support for IPv6

• Preparing an IPv6 Addressing Plan

• Configuring Network Services to Support IPv6

• Planning for Tunnel Use in the Network

• Security Considerations for an IPv6 Implementation

For an introduction to IPv6 concepts, refer to Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2460.txt).

For information about troubleshooting IPv6 networks, see Troubleshooting Issues With IPv6 Deployment in Troubleshooting Network Administration Issues in Oracle Solaris 11.4.