Cisco Packet Tracer and IPv6 Addressing...

Cisco Packet Tracer and IPv6 Addressing

Yesterday, I used Cisco Packet Tracer for the first time in several weeks.

I completed a Cisco Packet Tracer exercise from "Module 4: IPv6" in the Network Addressing and Basic Troubleshooting online class from the Cisco Networking Academy. 

The exercise involved configuring IPv6 on a router, two servers, and four computers.

The exercise was fairly simple. It involved opening the Cisco IOS on the router, activating IPv6, and then setting the IPv6 host address for the router as well as entering the IPv6 address for the default gateway.

After that, it was a simple matter of entering the IPv6 host address and the IPv6 address for the default gateway for each host (the laptop and desktop computers) and the servers.

The last step of the exercise involved running ping tests from each host to ensure that they can contact the internet service provider.

Cisco Packet Tracer and IPv6 Addressing

In Conclusion

All-in-all, the IPv6 addressing exercise was a relatively simple one to execute. Still, it's good to get the feet wet and get some experience using IPv6. For IT, IPv6 is the wave of the future. It's just a matter of time before IPv6 replaces IPv4 when it comes to addressing for computer networks. I will be working on another IPv6 addressing exercise for Cisco Packet Tracer later this morning.