Ch28-Fundamentals of IPv6 Flashcards
The process by which the public IPv4 addresses, available to create the Internet, were consumed through the 1980s until today, with the expectation that eventually the world would run out of available IPv4 addresses
IPv4 address exhaustion
A newer version of the Internet Protocol defined by RFC 2460, as well as many other RFCs, whose creation was motivated by the need to avoid the IPv4 address exhaustion problem
IPv6
The version of the OSPF routing protocol that originally supported only IPv6, and not IPv4, but now supports IPv4 through the use of address family configuration
OSPFv3
In IPv6, this terms refers to the number that identifies a group of IPv6 addresses; an IPv6 subnet identifier
prefix
In IPv6, the number of bits an in IPv6 prefix
prefix length