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Back in early 2000 I first tried to get seriously started with IPv6. But I
couldn’t find any documentation that helped me to understand how to make
it work in my usual environment. Being swamped with work at my then job
I eventually gave up, frustrated for the first time.
In 2002 Silvia Hagen published the first edition of “IPv6 Essentials” [52].
Expecting a hands-on guide to IPv6 I bought it, only to be frustrated again:
The book told me a lot more about the IPv6 protocol than I expected but
virtually nothing about how to make it work.
This time I didn’t give up. I read the book and learned a lot about the
underlying concepts. With this knowledge I managed to understand the IPv6-
related documentation available for individual Unixen, like Peter Bieringer’s
Linux IPv6 Howto [10] or the FreeBSD and Solaris online documentation.
It was much like studying mechanical engineering just to learn how to ride
a bicycle. So I started teaching others how to get IPv6 up and running at conferences
and various training courses. During that time I wrote a first training
manuscript and an article series [104, 105, 106] on IPv6 administration.
Since then IPv6 has noticeably matured. Not only have the core protocol
specifications become reasonably stable, but the actual implementations have
reached a usable state. This made it possible to turn the training course
manuscript into something less volatile: The book you are now reading. |
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