This session is funded with a grant from ARIN. It is a two-hour webinar. 

Dual Stack and Transition Mechanisms

 Enterprises rarely switch over from IPv4 to IPv6 in one step. Generally, companies will run dual-stack for a time, where both IPv4 and IPv6 are available on devices. This doesn’t solve most of the problems IPv6 was designed to solve, so we will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of:

• Dual-stack
• NAT44
• Dual-stack Lite
• NAT64/DNS64
• 464xlat
• MAP-T
• MAP-E
• IPv6-Only

DHCPv6Although IPv6 provides new addressing possibilities (SLAAC), most enterprises will want to continue using DHCP — which is now DHCPv6. We will describe how a client finds a DHCPv6 server, what information it can request and expect back. We will compare DHCPv6 to SLAAC.  We will discuss:

• DHCPv6 Solicit Advertise, Request, Reply
• DHCPv6 multicast addresses
• IA_NA, IA_PD
• Prefix “hints” to request the same prefix, or any prefix of a certain size
• Additional information (DNS, transition mechanism, etc.)

Nalini Elkins is the President of the Industry Network Technology Council.

She is also the CEO and Founder of Inside Products, Inc. Nalini is a recognized leader in the field of computer performance measurement and analysis. In addition to being an experienced software product designer, developer, and planner, she is a formidable businesswoman. She has been the founder or co-founder of three start-ups in the high-tech arena.

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