IPv6 for Server Admins and Client Developers
summary
Clear, practical guide to making systems work with IPv6: explains stateless address autoconfiguration, privacy extensions and opaque but stable addresses, gives the exact socket APIs to use (getaddrinfo, getnameinfo, IPv6 socket family) and why IPv6 sockets subsume IPv4, notes MTU minimum 1280, shows prefix delegation for routers, discusses multicast/anycast use cases, container/VM global addressing, and warns that firewalls and ACLs must be checked when using dual‑stack or global addresses.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:17IPv6 History
- 4:58What happened to IPv5
- 5:52IPv4 vs IPv6
- 9:21LinkLocal
- 12:19Stateless Address
- 17:49Firewall Rules
- 19:34Prefix Delegation
- 21:54Casting
- 23:49Efficiency
- 26:31API
- 27:29URL
- 28:33Socket Address
- 29:39Resolve Address
- 31:23Get Name Info
- 33:02Make a Connection
- 35:44All Routing Elements
- 37:41Multicast
- 39:18Socket API
- 40:53IPv6 Low Power Network
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