IPv6 was introduced in 1994 and has been in development at the IETF for over 10 years. It has now reached the deployment stage. KAME, the de-facto open-source reference implementation of the IPv6 standards, played a significant role in the acceptance and the adoption of the IPv6 technology. The adoption of KAME by key companies in a wide spectrum of commercial products is a testimonial to the success of the KAME project, which concluded not long ago.
This book is the first and the only one of its kind, which reveals all of the details of the KAME IPv6 protocol stack, explaining exactly what every line of code does and why it was designed that way. Through the dissection of both the code and its design, the authors illustrate how IPv6 and its related protocols have been interpreted and implemented from the specifications. This reference will demystify those ambiguous areas in the standards, which are open to interpretation and problematic in deployment, and presents solutions offered by KAME in dealing with these implementation challenges.
1. Chapter 1: Introduction 2. Chapter 2: IPv6 Addressing Architecture 3. Chapter 3: Internet Protocol Version 6 4. 3.1 Introduction 5. 3.2 IPv6 Header Format` 6. 3.3 IPv6 Extension Headers 7. 3.4 Source Address Selection 8. 3.5 Code Introduction 9. 3.6 IPv6 Packet Address Information in Mbuf 10. 3.7 Input Processing: ip6_input() Function 11. 3.8 Processing Hop-by-Hop Options Header: ip6_hopopts_input() Function 12. 3.9 Processing Destination Options Header: dest6_input() Function 13. 3.10 Reassembling Fragmented Packets 14. 3.11 Processing Routing Header: route6_input() Function 15. 3.12 Forwarding: ip6_forward() Function 16. 3.13 Output Processing 17. Chapter 4: Internet Control Message Protocol for IPv6 18. Chapter 5: Neighbor Discovery and Stateless Address Autoconfiguration 19. 5.1 Introduction 20. 5.2 Neighbor Discovery Protocol Overview 21. 5.3 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration Overview 22. 5.4 ND Protocol Messages 23. 5.5 Example Exchanges of ND Protocol Messages 24. 5.6 ND Protocol Packet Types and Formats 25. 5.7 Neighbor Discovery Option Types and Formats 26. 5.8 Next-Hop Determination and Address Resolution 27. 5.9 Neighbor Unreachability Detection Algorithm 28. 5.10 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration 29. 5.11 Router Specific Operation 30. 5.12 Host Specific Operation 31. 5.13 Code Introduction 32. 5.14 Initialization Functions 33. 5.15 Neighbor Cache Management Functions 34. 5.16 ND Protocol Messages Processing Functions 35. 5.17 ND Protocol Message Options Processing Functions 36. 5.18 Default Router Management Functions 37. 5.19 Prefix Management Functions 38. 5.20 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration Functions 39. 5.21 Duplicate Address Detection Functions 40. 5.22 Miscellaneous Functions 41. Chapter 6: Transport Layer Implications 42. Chapter 7: Socket API Extensions 43. References 44. Index 45. A 46. B 47. C 48. D 49. E 50. F 51. G 52. H 53. I 54. J 55. K 56. L 57. M 58. N 59. O 60. P 61. Q 62. R 63. S 64. T 65. U 66. V 67. W 68. Z 69. Instructions for online access
IPv6 was introduced in 1994 and has been in development at the IETF for over 10 years. It has now reached the deployment stage. KAME, the de-facto open-source reference implementation of the IPv6 standards, played a significant role in the acceptance and the adoption of the IPv6 technology. The adoption of KAME by key companies in a wide spectrum of commercial products is a testimonial to the success of the KAME project, which concluded not long ago.
This book is the first and the only one of its kind, which reveals all of the details of the KAME IPv6 protocol stack, explaining exactly what every line of code does and why it was designed that way. Through the dissection of both the code and its design, the authors illustrate how IPv6 and its related protocols have been interpreted and implemented from the specifications. This reference will demystify those ambiguous areas in the standards, which are open to interpretation and problematic in deployment, and presents solutions offered by KAME in dealing with these implementation challenges.
1. Chapter 1: Introduction 2. Chapter 2: IPv6 Addressing Architecture 3. Chapter 3: Internet Protocol Version 6 4. 3.1 Introduction 5. 3.2 IPv6 Header Format` 6. 3.3 IPv6 Extension Headers 7. 3.4 Source Address Selection 8. 3.5 Code Introduction 9. 3.6 IPv6 Packet Address Information in Mbuf 10. 3.7 Input Processing: ip6_input() Function 11. 3.8 Processing Hop-by-Hop Options Header: ip6_hopopts_input() Function 12. 3.9 Processing Destination Options Header: dest6_input() Function 13. 3.10 Reassembling Fragmented Packets 14. 3.11 Processing Routing Header: route6_input() Function 15. 3.12 Forwarding: ip6_forward() Function 16. 3.13 Output Processing 17. Chapter 4: Internet Control Message Protocol for IPv6 18. Chapter 5: Neighbor Discovery and Stateless Address Autoconfiguration 19. 5.1 Introduction 20. 5.2 Neighbor Discovery Protocol Overview 21. 5.3 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration Overview 22. 5.4 ND Protocol Messages 23. 5.5 Example Exchanges of ND Protocol Messages 24. 5.6 ND Protocol Packet Types and Formats 25. 5.7 Neighbor Discovery Option Types and Formats 26. 5.8 Next-Hop Determination and Address Resolution 27. 5.9 Neighbor Unreachability Detection Algorithm 28. 5.10 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration 29. 5.11 Router Specific Operation 30. 5.12 Host Specific Operation 31. 5.13 Code Introduction 32. 5.14 Initialization Functions 33. 5.15 Neighbor Cache Management Functions 34. 5.16 ND Protocol Messages Processing Functions 35. 5.17 ND Protocol Message Options Processing Functions 36. 5.18 Default Router Management Functions 37. 5.19 Prefix Management Functions 38. 5.20 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration Functions 39. 5.21 Duplicate Address Detection Functions 40. 5.22 Miscellaneous Functions 41. Chapter 6: Transport Layer Implications 42. Chapter 7: Socket API Extensions 43. References 44. Index 45. A 46. B 47. C 48. D 49. E 50. F 51. G 52. H 53. I 54. J 55. K 56. L 57. M 58. N 59. O 60. P 61. Q 62. R 63. S 64. T 65. U 66. V 67. W 68. Z 69. Instructions for online access
