Implementation of native IPv6 test-bed for network link quality and performance analysis

The prospect of an exhausted supply of address space in the current Internet Protocol IPv4, prompted the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to start a next generation of IP projects in the last two decades. The resulting IPv6 offers a 128 bit address space and other upgrades that support the auto configuration of new hosts. Due to a lack of information on design and implementation, network designers and engineers are reluctant to adopt IPv6 in existing enterprises. An IPv6 test network or test-bed is to be deployed in UiTM in order to gain experience and confidence before integrating it with existing IP networks. It will also become a platform for various experiments on IPv6 link characterization and other basic applications of the IPv6 network in UiTM. This paper describes practical aspects of setting up a native IPv6 network in UiTM, as well as evaluating network link quality.