Link-local IPv6 Address

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Deployment

August 24, 2015 Diane Teare Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

IPv4 addresses, used on the Internet, are 32 bits long. While that is a lot of bits, there are more devices wanting Internet connectivity than there are IPv4 addresses. The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) IPv4 “countdown” leaves no doubt that IPv4 addresses are very quickly becoming extinct, so it is no surprise that IPv6, the next generation of IP, is becoming a hot issue. IPv6 addresses have 128 bits, allowing a huge number of addresses to be created.