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IPv6 also named
IP-Next-Generation (IPng), designed by the IETF (The Internet
Engineering Task Force) in 1994 to improve the performance of the
current version Internet Protocol, IP Version 4
Internet protocol supports the interconnection of multiple
networking technologies into a single, logical internetwork. IPv4 is used for nearly twenty years, begins to have problems
mainly because of its growing shortage of addresses, which are needed
by all new machines added to the Internet.
The purpose of IPng is to not only fix IPv4’s problems, such
as addresses, routing and network auto-configurations and eventually
replace IPv4, but also to run well on high performance networks as
well as maintaining its efficiency for low bandwidth networks. |
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