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Empirical Analysis of the Effects and the Mitigation of Ipv4 Address Exhaustion
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN FAKULTÄT FÜR ELEKTROTECHNIK UND INFORMATIK LEHRSTUHL FÜR INTELLIGENTE NETZE UND MANAGEMENT VERTEILTER SYSTEME Empirical Analysis of the Effects and the Mitigation of IPv4 Address Exhaustion vorgelegt von M.Sc. Philipp Richter geboren in Berlin von der Fakultät IV – Elektrotechnik und Informatik der Technischen Universität Berlin zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades DOKTOR DER NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN -DR. RER. NAT.- genehmigte Dissertation Promotionsausschuss: Vorsitzender: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Möller, Technische Universität Berlin Gutachterin: Prof. Anja Feldmann, Ph.D., Technische Universität Berlin Gutachter: Prof. Vern Paxson, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Gutachter: Prof. Steve Uhlig, Ph.D., Queen Mary University of London Tag der wissenschaftlichen Aussprache: 2. August 2017 Berlin 2017 Abstract IP addresses are essential resources for communication over the Internet. In IP version 4, an address is represented by 32 bits in the IPv4 header; hence there is a finite pool of roughly 4B addresses available. The Internet now faces a fundamental resource scarcity problem: The exhaustion of the available IPv4 address space. In 2011, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) depleted its pool of available IPv4 addresses. IPv4 scarcity is now reality. In the subsequent years, IPv4 address scarcity has started to put substantial economic pressure on the networks that form the Internet. The pools of available IPv4 addresses are mostly depleted and today network operators have to find new ways to satisfy their ongoing demand for IPv4 addresses. Mitigating IPv4 scarcity is not optional, but mandatory: Networks facing address shortage have to take action in order to be able to accommodate additional subscribers and customers. Thus, if not confronted, IPv4 scarcity has the potential to hinder further growth of the Internet. -
Ipv6 AAAA DNS Whitelisting a BROADBAND INTERNET TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP TECHNICAL WORKING GROUP REPORT
IPv6 AAAA DNS Whitelisting A BROADBAND INTERNET TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP TECHNICAL WORKING GROUP REPORT A Near-Uniform Agreement Report (100% Consensus Achieved) Issued: September 2011 Copyright / Legal NotiCe Copyright © Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group, Inc. 2011. All rights reserved. This document may be reproduced and distributed to others so long as such reproduction or distribution complies with Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group, Inc.’s Intellectual Property Rights Policy, available at www.bitag.org, and any such reproduction contains the above copyright notice and the other notices contained in this section. This document may not be modified in any way without the express written consent of the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group, Inc. This document and the information contained herein is provided on an “AS IS” basis and BITAG AND THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS REPORT MAKE NO (AND HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY) WARRANTIES (EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE), INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR TITLE, RELATED TO THIS REPORT, AND THE ENTIRE RISK OF RELYING UPON THIS REPORT OR IMPLEMENTING OR USING THE TECHNOLOGY DESCRIBED IN THIS REPORT IS ASSUMED BY THE USER OR IMPLEMENTER. The information contained in this Report was made available from contributions from various sources, including members of Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group, Inc.’s Technical Working Group and others. Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group, Inc. takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any intellectual property rights or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in this Report or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has made any independent effort to identify any such rights. -
Ipv6 – What Is It, Why Is It Important, and Who Is in Charge? … Answers to Common Questions from Policy Makers, Executives and Other NonTechnical Readers
IPv6 – What is it, why is it important, and who is in charge? … answers to common questions from policy makers, executives and other nontechnical readers. A factual paper prepared for and endorsed by the Chief Executive Officers of ICANN and all the Regional Internet Registries, October 2009. 1. What is IPv6? “IP” is the Internet Protocol, the set of digital communication codes which underlies the Internet infrastructure. IP allows the flow of packets of data between any pair of points on the network, providing the basic service upon which the entire Internet is built. Without IP, the Internet as we know it would not exist. Currently the Internet makes use of IP version 4, or IPv4, which is now reaching the limits of its capacity to address additional devices. IPv6 is the “next generation” of IP, which provides a vastly expanded address space. Using IPv6, the Internet will be able to grow to millions of times its current size, in terms of the numbers of people, devices and objects connected to it1. 2. Just how big is IPv6? To answer this question, we must compare the IPv6 address architecture with that of IPv4. The IPv4 address has 32 bits, allowing today’s Internet to connect up to around four billion devices. By contrast, IPv6 has an address of 128 bits. Because each additional bit doubles the size of the address space, an extra 96 bits increases the theoretical size of the address space by many trillions of times. For comparison, if IPv4 were represented as a golf ball, then IPv6 would be approaching the size of the Sun.2 IPv6 is certainly not infinite, but it is not going to run out any time soon. -
Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of Ipv6
Special Publication 800-119 Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6 Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Sheila Frankel Richard Graveman John Pearce Mark Rooks NIST Special Publication 800-119 Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6 Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Sheila Frankel Richard Graveman John Pearce Mark Rooks C O M P U T E R S E C U R I T Y Computer Security Division Information Technology Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8930 December 2010 U.S. Department of Commerce Gary Locke, Secretary National Institute of Standards and Technology Dr. Patrick D. Gallagher, Director GUIDELINES FOR THE SECURE DEPLOYMENT OF IPV6 Reports on Computer Systems Technology The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) promotes the U.S. economy and public welfare by providing technical leadership for the nation’s measurement and standards infrastructure. ITL develops tests, test methods, reference data, proof of concept implementations, and technical analysis to advance the development and productive use of information technology. ITL’s responsibilities include the development of technical, physical, administrative, and management standards and guidelines for the cost-effective security and privacy of sensitive unclassified information in Federal computer systems. This Special Publication 800-series reports on ITL’s research, guidance, and outreach efforts in computer security and its collaborative activities with industry, government, and academic organizations. National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-119 Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. Spec. Publ. 800-119, 188 pages (Dec. 2010) Certain commercial entities, equipment, or materials may be identified in this document in order to describe an experimental procedure or concept adequately. -
Ipv4 and Ipv6 Subnetting Demo
IPv4 and IPv6 Subnetting Demo Instructor: Networks rely on the use of IP addresses to allow devices to communicate with each other. These addresses are often obtained as a single large block and are given to the organizations that require them. However, a single block of addresses rarely meets the needs of a network and it needs to be segmented in order to better accommodate the network. An IP address is made up of two parts, the address itself and the subnet mask. The subnet mask helps us determine which part of the address defines the network and which part defines the specific host in the network. This is done by comparing the binary bits of the subnet mask to the address itself. Where there is a one in the subnet mask, we are looking at the network portion of the address; where there is a zero, we are looking at the host portion, or the identifier of the specific machine. The subnet can be represented in "CIDR" notation which includes a slash followed by the number of ones, or network bits, in the subnet. So the subnet mask 255.255.255.0 could be shortened to /24 because there are 24 binary ones. Subnets are an effective way to segment a single large network into a Page 1 of 4 group of smaller ones. In IPv4, this concept is fairly simple. A network will be assigned an address block, let's say 192.168.1.0/24. Then, we determine the amount of subnets we need and how many hosts we need in each subnet. -
Ipv6 Cheat Sheet
Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Basics Cheat Sheet IPv6 Addresses by Jens Roesen /64 – lan segment, 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 v6 IPs IPv6 quick facts /48 – subscriber site, 65536 /64 lan segments successor of IPv4 • 128-bit long addresses • that's 296 times the IPv4 address space • that's 2128 or 3.4x1038 or over 340 /32 – minimum allocation size, 65536 /48 subscriber sites, allocated to ISPs undecillion IPs overall • customer usually gets a /64 subnet, which yields 4 billion times the Ipv4 address space • no need for network address translation (NAT) any more • no broadcasts any more • no ARP • stateless address 2001:0db8:0f61:a1ff:0000:0000:0000:0080 configuration without DHCP • improved multicast • easy IP renumbering • minimum MTU size 1280 • mobile IPv6 • global routing prefix subnet ID interface ID mandatory IPsec support • fixed IPv6 header size of 40 bytes • extension headers • jumbograms up to 4 GiB subnet prefix /64 IPv6 & ICMPv6 Headers IPv6 addresses are written in hexadecimal and divided into eight pairs of two byte blocks, each containing four hex IPv6 header digits. Addresses can be shortened by skipping leading zeros in each block. This would shorten our example address to 0 8 16 24 32 2001:db8:f61:a1ff:0:0:0:80. Additionally, once per IPv6 IP, we can replace consecutive blocks of zeros with a version traffic class flow label double colon: 2001:db8:f61:a1ff::80. The 64-bit interface ID can/should be in modified EUI-64 format. A MAC 00 03 ba 24 a9 6c payload length next header hop limit 48-bit MAC can be transformed to an 64-bit interface ID by inverting the 7th (universal) bit and inserting a ff and fe byte after rd source IPv6 address the 3 byte. -
Emulation of the IP Core Network for Testing of the Service GPRS Support Node (SGSN) Routing Application
Technical report, IDE0959, November 2009 Emulation of the IP Core Network for Testing of the Service GPRS Support Node (SGSN) Routing Application Master’s Thesis in Computer Network Engineering Hossein Torkaman School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering Halmstad University Emulation of the IP Core Network for Testing of the Service GPRS Support Node (SGSN) Routing Application Master’s thesis in Computer Network Engineering School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering Halmstad University Box 823, S-301 18 Halmstad, Sweden November 2009 Description of cover page picture: IP Core Network picture on GPRS Networks. Preface The following report is based on the data and information gathered through literature studies, Ericsson’s Intranet documents and other several GPRS standards published by 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), observations, emulating different IP core network scenarios, meetings and executed experiments during December 2008 - August 2009 at Ericsson AB Lindholmen. The input martial to this thesis formed primarily by Internet Protocols and Drivers section in Product Development Department Packet Core at Ericsson AB, Göteborg, Sweden with leadership of Gunilla Zachrisson, my supervisor, to whom I should give an immense thank you due to her kind guidance on each phase of project and for her valuable supports on the implementation of improvements. I am also thankful to my manager, Matthew Crockett, who also made me feel welcomed at Ericsson AB Lindholmen. A big thanks is also directed to my supervisor at Halmstad University, Tony Larsson, for pointing me in the right direction and for the feedback regarding the performance of the project. I would also like to use this opportunity to thank Colin Taylor and Daniel Nilsson and all other colleagues at Ericsson, for interrupting their busy schedules in order to provide me with their technical feedback and experience. -