Coexistence & Migration
The migration of IPv4 to IPv6 will not happen overnight. Rather, there will be a period of transition when both protocols are in use over the same infrastructure. To address this, the designers of IPv6 have created technologies and types of addresses so that nodes can communicate with each other in a mixed environment, even if they are separated by an IPv4 infrastructure. This article describes IPv4 and IPv6 coexistence and migration technologies and how these technologies are supported by the IPv6 protocol for the Windows .NET Server 2003 family. This article is intended for network engineers and support professionals who are already familiar with basic networking concepts, TCP/IP, and IPv6.
The migration of IPv4 to IPv6 will not happen overnight. Rather, there will be a period of transition when both protocols are in use over the same infrastructure. To address this, the designers of IPv6 have created technologies and types of addresses so that nodes can communicate with each other in a mixed environment, even if they are separated by an IPv4 infrastructure. This article describes IPv4 and IPv6 coexistence and migration technologies and how these technologies are supported by the IPv6 protocol for the Windows .NET Server 2003 family. This article is intended for network engineers and support professionals who are already familiar with basic networking concepts, TCP/IP, and IPv6.
