From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 23 11:50:16 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B08AE69 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:50:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yar.tikhiy@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ve0-x232.google.com (mail-ve0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c01::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1FD8025BE for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:50:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ve0-f178.google.com with SMTP id jw12so2302243veb.9 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2013 04:50:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=woOUzKWkwR2z+vZRoET45pOmB+HuP+y+YHTVlTz1q9w=; b=pquGc9GnC2gKyOp5jX8LGzX93TxK/5MWu/hwh7t9bFTFUHtePcsUNbLwfhNdYPc4j4 AjVoNymzwLiwX4tEYiCcRsD/izMtKbNJCxLtWtTNoV25LDAa9rzi2RV6pclQnGmptvk3 Wo89r8v1v9RcxiElcFr1S0BfSCXLi226WlyptVMzihtma95CFiwPddsqH42Pa6w+e6bi XfNsy/zZvSIT53qXhLi/vkLdHQEDVCLh+FmOCrpnp6KWyFdA4vO96/l+4qg2XPjPuZDt KhiMm8+yI4vqb29PlrtEJFcz3AUKCncZHlxiELnTc4c28r8Ux00tiCn6TI4nxZ4wxrZG RVOw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.220.237.208 with SMTP id kp16mr21738869vcb.4.1379937015245; Mon, 23 Sep 2013 04:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.90.68 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Sep 2013 04:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:50:15 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Free book draft: IPv6 for IPv4 Experts From: Yar Tikhiy To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:50:16 -0000 Hi all, Not a complete stranger to the project, I hope the following 'advertisement' will be appropriate here. When sometime around 2007 I finally had to make real sense of IPv6, I found a magic garden where brilliant ideas bloomed, and I felt it would be a shame to have all that beauty only to myself. I simply couldn't resist trying to structure those ideas up so that each of them shined in a crown of logical connections with others and with facts an average IPv4 wizard could be expected to know. Then it took some slow-paced rethinking, editing, and formatting to arrive a few years later at what can be considered a textbook intended for the battle-hardened veterans of the IPv4 era who are sufficiently curious and confident at the same time to stretch their current knowledge to the limit in order to discover the whys and wherefores of the IPv6 architecture instead of just dull facts about it such as the IPv6 address length. (As an exercise, try to tell in under 3 seconds what the famous length equals to _in bytes_.) Unsure if I want to get into the publishing hassle, I figured the best way to launch my work into the interhuman information space would be just to offer the final draft to the attention of the community. If you like it, the biggest favor you can do me will be to share it via your social network of choice. If you don't quite like it---well, then you probably don't have to share it. :-) The project page is: https://sites.google.com/site/yartikhiy/home/ipv6book An e-reader friendly PDF as well as a conventional A4 size PDF is available. Hoping you will enjoy the reading as much as I have enjoyed the writing. Cheers, Yar (formerly yar@)