La transición del protocolo IPV4 a IPV6 en una empresa: revisión y caso

Abstract

Interconnection network protocols for global single addressing, whose work objectives are multiple thanks to technological advancement and the big exponential growth of the Internet, have nowadays reached exhaustion, causing its current protocol: IPV4 to consume almost the entirety of IP addresses, so it was necessary to create and implement a new addressing protocol all over the world: IPV6. And though its deployment hasn’t been immediate, it is expected that the majority of companies carry it out within a two-year range. The purpose of this article is to present a guide which allows to execute the transition and provisioning of IPV6 within the companies; detailed guidelines regarding IPV4-IPV6 transition methods, forms of IP’s assignation and routing protocols will be given. For this, a company’s basic services have been considered, such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP); Domain Name System (DNS); SYSLOG event registry; Network Time Protocol (NTP); and the MAIL service, among others. Concluding from the network tests that the services function in an acceptable way, and that the methodology can be applied in any company as long as the corresponding network structure is taken into account.