IPv6 Basics for Beginners

September 17, 2020 Alice AUSTIN

In this tutorial for beginners I discuss the structure of the IPv6 address, the network portion, the interface ID, and the network prefix. The function of the different types of IPv6 addresses: global unicast, link-local, unique local, and anycast. How SLAAC works in IPv6 address auto-configuration along with EUI-64 to auto-configure the interface-id. The role of ICMPv6 in router and neighbor solicitation and advertisement (RS, RA, NS, NA). I also go over IPv6 addresses that are important to know like IPv6 all routes default gateway, loopback, and multicast addresses like the all solicited nodes multicast address.