How to assign IPv6 address

In IPv6 a single interface can be given multiple IP addresses and depending upon the routability and other parameters the interface will choose the IP address while sending packets. In IPv4 there were only two possible ways for giving IP addresses and those are giving static IP address or giving IP address from the DHCP.

In IPv6 the address space and their by length of the IP address has increases 4 times and this makes assigning and maintaining IP addresses statically or on a DHCP pool difficult. To solve this problem the auto-configuration has been introduced in IPv6. This video explains different ways in which IPv6 terminal can be given addresses…

1. Manual
2. Autonomous
3. Semi-Autonomous
4. Stateless server
5. Stateful server

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IPv6-101 video series on SecurityTube.net will start with the basic introduction to IPv6 protocol. This video series will serve as a IPv6 tutorial for beginners and will help as a quick reference for advanced users. I will try to add more and more practical examples and real life scenarios in IPv6 tutorial video series along with the theoretical explanation.

Amit Vartak, 27 is working in wired and wireless security fields since last 3-4 years. His current area of interest includes IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) suite of protocols, vulnerabilities in these protocols and countermeasure for those vulnerabilities. Working on cutting edge tools and technology always keeps him busy. He has contributed from concept level to final prototyping for the presentations in Defcon 2007 (The Emperor Has No Cloak - WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon 2007 (Caffe latte attack). He holds 2 patents with USPTO (current status: Patent Pending) and a few papers in IEEE journals on wireless protocol vulnerabilities. Prior to this, he was working on MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) and has published a few papers in SPIE and ICMAT. (Yeah… kindda orthogonal fields… but technology really doesn’t limit the talent :) He did his masters in Electrical Engineering from one of the premier institutes in India, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-Bombay) and his under graduation, from University of Mumbai in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. He is currently working with AirTight Networks Inc. as a team lead in technology group since last 3 years.You can get in touch with him at amitcv[at]gmail[dot]com