[adkadskhj]

How useful would that book (IPv6 Address Planning) be to someone not working specifically in networking/ops? I like developing applications and i manage, of course, my home network.

I'd love a book that gives me everything i need to know about IPv6. From justifications, to things to know when working with it, implementing it, using it in my local network, etc.

I don't perhaps need or care to learn it at a super low level, but i do want a complete understanding of it for my specific use cases. Applications and home networks, i imagine. For a novice in networks, to be clear.

Thoughts?

[zamadatix]

For home you probably care about SLAAC, PD, the standard subnet size of /64, and possibly the Link Local differences (more out of curiosity of what those addresses show up on your machines for than needing to know to do anything with it). Also DNS is going to have AAAA records instead of A records and reverse lookups use a different zone, the changes in DNS are pretty 1:1 translational for admins though. If you want to go full on v6 you'll want to read about NAT64 so you can still reach the v4 internet from your v6 only home network. Also take a look at http://shouldiblockicmp.com/ even if you don't go down the path of v6.

For applications programming you'll want to have a feel for the above, IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses, and review link local again to in particular note how to encode the interface in a socket call (useful for configurationless cluster communication).

Most every other detail of IPv6 changes should only matter to those that write networking stacks or make routers.

For all of the above info I'd recommend just reading the Wikipedia article on IPv6. Most of these are straightforward wrote memorization of best practices or background reasoning things so it's not "read a book" worthy if you're not trying to do this for a living IMO (coming from someone who does networking for a living).

[fintler]

I would guess that the first two chapters would be useful.

Honestly, if your first thought isn't "oh wow, I would love to learn how to plan out IPv6 networks", it might not be worthwhile.