Sunday, March 1, 2009

Differences IPv4 Vs IPv6

Bookmark and Share

I had compiled differences between IPv6 and IPv4 long back. Though it is for my personal reference I am uploading it on my blog. Hope someone might find this useful.

Thanks to those known and known sources who helped me compile this.

IPv4

IPv6

Addresses are 32 bits (4 bytes) in length. Addresses are 128 bits (16 bytes) in length
Address (A) resource records in DNS to map host names to IPv4 addresses. Address (AAAA) resource records in DNS to map host names to IPv6 addresses.
Pointer (PTR) resource records in the IN-ADDR.ARPA DNS domain to map IPv4 addresses to host names. Pointer (PTR) resource records in the IP6.ARPA DNS domain to map IPv6 addresses to host names.
IPSec is optional and should be supported externally IPSec support is not optional
Header does not identify packet flow for QoS handling by routers Header contains Flow Label field, which Identifies packet flow for QoS handling by router.
Both routers and the sending host fragment packets. Routers do not support packet fragmentation. Sending host fragments packets
Header includes a checksum. Header does not include a checksum.
Header includes options. Optional data is supported as extension headers.
ARP uses broadcast ARP request to resolve IP to MAC/Hardware address. Multicast Neighbor Solicitation messages resolve IP addresses to MAC addresses.
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) manages membership in local subnet groups. Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) messages manage membership in local subnet groups.
Broadcast addresses are used to send traffic to all nodes on a subnet. IPv6 uses a link-local scope all-nodes multicast address.
Configured either manually or through DHCP. Does not require manual configuration or DHCP.
Must support a 576-byte packet size (possibly fragmented). Must support a 1280-byte packet size (without fragmentation).

Network Sorcery is a great place to find RFC(s).

Refer to http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/ipv6.htm and http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/ip.htm links for related RFC(s) of IPv6 and IPv4 respectively.

Also there is good reference for Understanding IPv6 @ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc786127.aspx


You may also be interested in,
+ Differences HTML Vs HTML5
+ Differences Routing Vs Routed protocol
+ Use Vs Require in PERL

30 comments:

  1. Nice comparision i m wasim from pakistan
    ReplyDelete
  2. thank u...........such a nice comparision..
    ReplyDelete
  3. Thanks. This is very useful.
    ReplyDelete
  4. Tx. more info is highly appreciated. hw ever very helpful.
    ReplyDelete
  5. this is very good ....but i need the diff between RMI AND RFC
    ReplyDelete
  6. thnx.very useful for me thnx once again.pls give some vlan concept question from lenin chennai
    ReplyDelete
  7. Good-quick reference. Thanks
    ReplyDelete
  8. hey its a nice reference. Thanks
    ReplyDelete
  9. really helped me for my quiz thanks a lot
    ReplyDelete
  10. thanx sir...........divesh agrahari
    ReplyDelete
  11. ya its really good and very helpful thank you so much ...:)
    ReplyDelete
  12. it was of great help.. thank yu..
    ReplyDelete
  13. i suggest to keep in touch with an ipv4 to ipv6 discussion forum since it often gets full of expertise and good answers
    ReplyDelete
  14. hey thanx for giving this ....
    ReplyDelete
  15. well can u tell me which is best ipv6 or ipv4
    ReplyDelete
  16. tank you sir I ajith from kerala
    ReplyDelete
  17. there's one mistake in first point....it shud b 6 bytes..
    ReplyDelete
  18. Thanks:) Really useful one.. Good job..
    ReplyDelete
  19. This is really nice..
    Thankz alot :)
    ReplyDelete
  20. I like your Blog.
    satyam from india
    ReplyDelete
  21. image only:
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IN43WKZQbETdkGLvdDSTCrMMk4F3Xb4LJqUcCoMMsAU/edit
    ReplyDelete
  22. Very helpful. Thanks so much
    ReplyDelete

Your valuable comments are welcome. (Comments will be moderated.)

 




Technology