Quality of Service and performance characterization of IPv6 relative to IPv4

ACRONYMS AND EXPRESSIONS

AH Authentication Header

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DHCPv6 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol version 6

DNS Domain Name System

DOS Disk Operating System

DSCP Differentiated Services Code Point

EH Encryption Header

FEDORA Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol

ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol

ICMPv6 Internet Control Message Protocol version 6

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

IHL Internet Header Length

IOS Internetwork Operating System

IP Internet Protocol

IPng Internet Protocol next generation

IPsec Internet Protocol security

IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4

IPv5 Internet Protocol version 5

IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6

IPv9 Internet Protocol version 9

ISP Internet Service Provider

Kbps Kilobits per second

MAC Media Access Control

MB Mega Byte

PDA Personal Digital Assistant

PING Packet Internet Groper

PING6 Packet Internet Groper version 6

QoS Quality of Service

SDM Security Device Manager

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

ToS Type of Service

TTL Time to Live

UDP User Datagram Protocol

URL Uniform Resource Locator

WWW World Wide Web

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1: IPv4 Header 17

Figure 2: IPv6 Header 19

Figure 3: Dual Stack 32

Figure 4: Tunneling 33

Figure 5: QoS Status 39

Figure 6: QoS of bandwidth 40

Figure 7: Dual Stack diagram 41

Figure 8: Network test-lab diagram 42

Figure 9: Ping IPv4 address 43

Figure 10: Ping6 IPv6 site-local 44

Figure 11: Ping6 IPv6 link-local address 44

Figure 12: Ping6 IPv6 embedded IPv4 address 44

Figure 13: Telnet IPv6/IPv4 45

Figure 14: The packets list. 46

Figure 15: Sent Packets 49

Figure 16: Received Packets 49

Figure 17: Total Packets 50

Figure 18: IPv6 install 51

Figure 19: IPv6 install with NETSH 52

Figure 20: IPv4 node Local Area Connection Status 53

Figure 21: Network Component / Protocol 53

Figure 22: IPv6 install 54

Figure 23: IPv4/IPv6 node Local Area Connection Status 55

Figure 24: IPv6 uninstall 56

Figure 25: IPv4 address 56

Figure 26: IPv6 address 57

Figure 27: IPv6 installation in Linux 58

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1:IPv6 prefix notation 13

Table 2: Comparison of IPv4 header and IPv6 Header 22

Table 3: IPv4 versus IPv6 28

Table 4: IPv6 and IPv4 Header packet 47

Table 5: Internet Traffic per System and Protocol 48

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this project is to analyze the evolution of Internet Protocol, how we can migrate from the existing one running to its successor.

The theoretical concepts needed to carry out this study have been thoroughly studied and described in this book. The motivations behind the adoption of the IP next generation have been focused on for a good understanding.

The methodology used was «the migration methodology» in order to aid the network migrator to analyze and simplify the migration process. The steps in the migration methodology have been followed carefully to achieve this study.

The feasibility study of migrating to IPv6 from IPv4 part that was the crucial phase of this study has been critically considered. The first activity was to determine devices that can support the IPv6. The second activity carried out was to set up a network. The third activity was to use Network Analyzer software to detect traffics in network. Finally, we analyze the results obtained.

Recommendations have also been suggested for further research to enhance, revise and more features to the related topic.