* Covers IPv6 on Windows XP, MacOS X, FreeBSD, and Linux.

* It is on the cusp of the next Internet breakthrough. Network administrators will have to accommodate this technology eventually; this book will help them become more proficient.

* IPv6 is gaining popularity, even the US government is starting to adopt it.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 1Pv6

Chapter 2 Getting Started

Chapter 3 Tunnels

Chapter 4 Routing

Chapter 5 The DNS

Chapter 6 Applications

Chapter 7 The Transition

Chapter 8 1Pv6 Internal

Chapter 9 Security

Chapter 10 Troubleshooting

Chapter 11 Providing Transit Services

Appendix A The IETF and RFCs

Appendix B Startup Scripts

Appendix C Postscript

About the Author

Iljitsch van Beijnum is a freelance network specialist and writer in the Netherlands. He is the author of BGP (O'Reilly, 2002) and is active within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), especially within the Multihoming in IPv6 (multi6) working group.