It is used to communicate within the local network, whether with other hosts or with the on-net (local network) router. It resembles the private address in IPv4 world. Hosts are usually assigned two types of IPv6 unicast addresses: Link local and global unicast addresses.

A Unicast address represents a single host, and each interface of the host can have more than one Unicast address. There are several types of IPv6 addresses: Unicast addresses, Multicasts and Anycast addresses. The default prefix is /64 which divided the IP address into two halves. An IPv6 address is divided into two parts: the left part is the network identifier while the right one is the host identifier. The 128 bits address length provides 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses. Each nibble consists of four hexadecimal digits. IPv6 address consists of 128 bits, divided into 8 groups called nibbles, quibbles or hextets separated by colons. The work on IPv6 started before the introduction of NAT and Private addressing to IPv4, which are considered temporary solutions of IPv4 address shortage problem. IPv6 protocol was defined at the end of 1990’s, mainly to provide a huge address pool after realizing that the world would run out of IPv4 addresses quickly.

The workshop was generally divided into two sections: a short introduction to IPv6 and analyzing some IPv6 packets on Wireshark. It was held by Jeffery Carrell on the second day of IPv6 summit on Tuesday, the 15th of March.

Wireshark in IP version 6 workshop was a part of IPv6 summit sessions of Troopers 16.

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