Discussion Assignment Unit 4 CS 2204-01 Communications and Networking - AY2023-T5 University of the People Majd Alhaddad . IPv4's ARP and IPv6's Neighbor Solicitation both map an address from one space to another. In this respect they are similar. However, there are several differences. In what major ways do they differ? Both ipv4 and ipv6 are Internet protocols that secure the connection of computers to the Internet by providing the IP address of the computer, and the numbers 4 and 6 in ipv4 and ipv6 refer to the version number, as IPv4 was released in 1981 AD, while IPv6 is the version The latest was released at the end of the nineties of the last century, and the need for it emerged after the enormous pressure on IP addresses and the lack of numbers and addresses through the old version that supports 32-bit and is in the form of 192.168.1.1, and provides about 4.3 billion unique IP addresses, while ipv6 is the sixth latest version, which Provides about 340 septillion IP addresses in the form of decimal numbers and letters The term internet protocol refers to the abbreviation and the IP address that is available to each computer, while ipv4 refers to Internet Protocol Version 4, which is the old 32-bit version of Internet protocols, while IPv6 refers to Internet Protocol Version 6, the latest version of Internet protocols, and to know the difference between ipv4 And ipv6 note the following table: Internet Protocol Version 4 " IPv4" It features a 32-bit fixed value based on the decimal system. Supports 128-bit hexadecimal supported. An example of an IPV4 address is 68.149.3.230. It is characterized by hierarchical addressing and routing infrastructure. A connectionless Internet protocol, allowing the creation of a simple virtual connection layer. Internet Protocol Version 6 " IPv6" An example of an IPV6 address is: 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 Limited number of IP addresses Offers an unlimited number of IP addresses. IP addresses consist of four digits of numbers from 0 to 255 It consists of eight digits distributed between numbers and letters
Most of the computers in the world today use and adopt the Internet protocol IPv4 because of its ease of configuration and management of addresses, while the Internet protocol IPv6 remains the most secure, encrypted and pluralistic and provides an unlimited number of IP addresses, so the future is for the latest version IPV6 that is capable of providing a huge number of IP addresses to cover the increasing demand for those addresses. . References : IPv4 and IPv6 issues. https://www.itu.int/en/wtpf-13/Documents/backgrounder-wtpf- 13-ipv4-ipv6-en.pdf