Hello Michiel;

-=> Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Brian Rogers <=-

 MvV> There I only partly agree. Sure, many things are the same or similar in
 MvV> IPv4 and IPv6. But I also find that many newcomers to IPv6 have
 MvV> difficulty to get rid of "IPv4 think". To let go of the idea that NAT
 MvV> is "security" and that IPv6 is insecure because it does not use NAT is
 MvV> something that needs to sink in. Also it takes a while to realize that
 MvV> there is no need to be greedy when assigning addresses. There are 2^64
 MvV> addresses in a subnet...

I was more focusing on some of the tools available however when it comes to
some of the other things such as subnetting, security and such yes it's
slightly different than IPv4. One thing IPv6 uses is NDP vs ARP in IPv4.

 MvV> There is more than one road that leads to Rome...

Absolutely! In this case it doesn't matter if you're talking IPv4 or IPv6.



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