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Diploma thesis 2023Systems Engineeringinternetna varnost · IP protokol · IPv4

Transition from IPv4 Protocol to IPv6 Protocol

The Internet and information technology are virtually irreplaceable in everyday life and have almost completely integrated into our environment.

Boštjan SternadRačunalništvo in informatika · module Sistemsko inženirstvo · supervisor mag. Dušan Brglez · defence marec 2023
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AuthorBoštjan Sternad
Supervisormag. Dušan Brglez
ModuleSystems EngineeringComputer Science and Informatics
Employer / clientAcademia
Year2023marec 2023
About the project

Challenge, approach and results.

The Internet and information technology are virtually irreplaceable in everyday life and have almost completely integrated into our environment. Particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for the best possible connectivity and communication via the Internet became evident in all schools. The largest Internet connectivity providers have been supporting the IPv6 Internet protocol for quite some time now, which is more suitable than the IPv4 protocol precisely because of its security and stability.

Solution and Method

The Internet and information technology are virtually irreplaceable in everyday life and have almost completely integrated into our environment. The fast pace of life also requires the use of increasingly faster and better devices, which not only help us with work, but are increasingly used for various types of monitoring and controlling our living environment. Let us imagine how our everyday life would proceed without the Internet, electronic mail, mobile phones, laptops, tablets and similar smart devices.

We would probably say that this is impossible or unimaginable. The development of technology certainly has a strong impact on our environment, both working and living, and we cannot and do not want to stop this. Even if we retreat to a less developed environment without all these devices and aids, sooner or later we encounter the fact that we need or desire at least some of this.

People are social beings and therefore have ingrained in us the fact that we cannot live in isolation, cut off from the world. Information technology enables us precisely this: connecting, socialising, communicating. The diploma thesis will demonstrate the transition from the IPv4 protocol to the ** IPv6** protocol for Miklavž na Dravskem polju Primary School.

Results

Particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for the best possible connectivity and communication via the Internet became evident in all schools. The largest Internet connectivity providers have been supporting the IPv6 Internet protocol for quite some time now, which is more suitable than the IPv4 protocol precisely because of its security and stability. Although within the Eduroam system itself at the school we already partially use the IPv6 protocol, the IPv4 protocol is nevertheless in use for the most part.

The biggest problem caused by IPv4 is primarily the security of the accounting department's connection via remote desktop to the server with sensitive data. The security deficiency of the connection itself is therefore resolved through the Arnes institute, which by opening and closing individual Internet connection channels (ports) enables or prevents unwanted intrusions into the local school network. The IPv6 protocol itself, with its built-in mechanisms, prevents such and similar Internet attacks and is therefore a very sensible choice of appropriate Internet protocol.

Omrežni usmerjevalnik z ethernet kabli za prehod med IP protokoli
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