Análise e implementação do protocolo IPV6 em infraestruturas de redes de computadores

Abstract

The Internet Protocol version 4 (IPV4) isn’t capable of dealing with the massive growth of the need of IP adresses around the world, making IPV6 a solution to be used. Besides the benefits of being able to communicate trought IPV6 networks using real IP adresses, the IPV4 transition process isn’t simple to be executed, delaying the adoption of IPV6. To ease these problems, there is several transition techniques such as Dual Stack, Tunneling, Translation, among others, that allow the use of IPV6 even on a network enviroment where IPV4 is the main protocol. After structuring a network topology with real equipments, some of these techniques were put to the test in order to evaluate the network performance using each one, thought comparissons between the delay of a packet being sent trought the network. After executing and analysing these tests results, it was found that the Dual Stack technique allows the use os IPV6 resources without impacting on the existing network, making the dificulty of the transition process to be linked directly to the network complexity.