RE: Off topic: Any one know of a good IPV6 reference book?

["R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>]

> In addition, ISS and NetScreen have both recently announced IPv6 capable firewall products.

Of course the netscreens have been showing up lately with various issues
in the OS...   But, further related to this topic, , not of the
netscreens, but, the push for ipV6;

July 28, CNET News
World nearing Web address crunch. Global momentum is growing for a new
address system, known as Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) which promises
to vastly expand the pool of unique numbers available for connecting PCs
and
other devices to the Net. Established five years ago, IPv6 creates enough
IP
addresses for every person on Earth to have 1,000 Web-enabled devices by
quadrupling the size of the IP address. The standard is seen as a
necessary
successor to the current IPv4 system, which some fear could run short of
addresses in Asia and Europe within the next few years. The U.S. may not
see
a shortfall because it was granted an enormous number of addresses in the
original worldwide allotment. Shifting to the new standard means making
changes to every Internet-connected device, router and switch on the
network. And since fear of an address shortage is the single biggest
argument in favor of a switch, the U.S. could stay on the sidelines as the
rest of the world wrestles with the upgrade over the coming years,
networking experts said. Source: http://www.msnbc.com/news/945119.asp

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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