In the good old days of IPv4, an interface on a host could have only one IPv4 IP address. Things were very simple, every IP host would use that one address as the source IP for all communication. When we get into IPv6, each interface can have multiple IPv6 addresses. These addresses have different scopes…
Tag: ipv6
Can’t remember the IPv6 6to4 conversion?
What is IPv6 6to4 tunnel address? 2022::/16 or 2002::/16? How do you convert the IPv4 address into IPv6 6to4 tunnel address? Well there is the long way, which you should understand and then there is the easy way in case you need to configure it really quickly. I found this nice method where you can…
IPv6 ACL Explicit vs Implicit Deny Any Any
Reading the IPv6 Configuration Guide (Implementing Traffic Filters and Firewalls for IPv6 Security), I came across a little known fact that seems to be very important when configuring IPv6 access-lists on IOS. Usually when I configured an IPv4 ACL, I explicitly defined a deny ip any any at the end, which seems like the best…