ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to all those who gave
me the possibility to complete this report. A special thanks to our seminar coordinator,
Mr. Nitin Kathuria, whose help, stimulating suggestions and encouragement, helped me
to coordinate my seminar presentation especially in writing this report.

Last but not least, many thanks go to the head of the department of electronics
and communication branch, Mr. Arvind sir, who have given his full effort in guiding the
presentation in achieving the aim as well as his encouragement to maintain our progress
in track. I would to appreciate the guidance given by other supervisor as well as the
panels especially in our seminar presentation that has improved our presentation skills by
their comment and tips.

I would like to express my gratitude to wards my parents & member of Accurate

Institute of Management & Technology for their kind co-operation and encouragement
which help me in completion of this report.

Md.
Nadeem Ahmad Faiz

Abstract
The Internet is one of the greatest revolutionary innovations of the twentieth century. It
made the 'global village utopia ' a reality in a rather short span of time. It is changing the way
we interact with each other, the way we do business, the way we educate ourselves and even
the way we entertain ourselves. Perhaps even the architects of Internet would not have
foreseen the tremendous growth rate of the network being witnessed today. With the advent
of the Web and multimedia services, the technology underlying the Internet has been under
stress.
The Internet Protocol (IP) is the method or protocol by which data is sent from one
computer to another on the Internet.
In 1978, the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) mandated the use of IPv4 for all
host-to-host data exchange enabling IPv4 to become the mechanism for the military to
create integrated versus stovepipe communications. Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the
next generation Internet Protocol.
It is designed to supplement IPv4 and fix problems with IPv4 and allow for future
growth. IPv6 provides a substantially larger IP address space than Ipv4. This version was
initially named IPng (IP next generation) and is now officially known as IPv6. IPv6 supports
128-bit addresses, the source address and the destination address, each being, 128 bits long.
However to speed up the transition, an IPv4 compatible IPv6 addressing scheme has been
worked out. Major vendors are now writing softwares for various computing environments
to support IPv6 functionality.
So

2128 = 3.4 x 1038 addresses, right?

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