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IPv6 in action

IPv6 in action

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IPv6 in action

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- We've talked about the basics of IPv6, but let's go ahead and actually watch IPv6 in action. Now, before we get started, there's one thing I want to stress to you, and that is the idea of the EUI-64 addressing used for IPv6 addresses. Take a look right now on my screen. What I want to show you is, I'm on a Windows system and I'm running ipconfig /all. There it is. So what I want you to do is look very closely here. Do you see my MAC address? Let's just look at the last digits here. So it says 5A-50. Now, according to the rules of EUI-64, we should be able to see that 5A-50 in the IPv6 addresses. But if you look, we don't see that. Well, what's going on here? Well, the answer is simple. If you're generating the last half of your IPv6 address from your MAC address using EUI-64, there is a traceability to your system from any data you're sending out the door. Remember, there is no private IP addresses in the world of IPv6. All IPv6 addresses are public. NAT is dead. 192.168 stuff, it's…

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