Migration from IPV4 to IPV6 in Republic of Yemen

Abstract

Due to the great features IPv6 has over IPv4, many countries have adopted IPv6 in their networks, and many websites are planning to complete their migration to IPv6. In Yemen, the process of deploying IPv6 is still very slow, and if it continued in the same pace, in few years Internet users in Yemen won’t be able to reach some websites or even communicate with IPv6-only users in other countries. In this paper, not only did we investigate the details of the IPv6 transition process in Yemen, but we also suggested, implemented and tested solutions to one of the most important problems that prevent Yemen’s ISP from deploying IPv6 in their network, which is the fact that many users still have IPv4-only devices and can’t change them or upgrade their software to support IPv6. In our work, we used a combination of software and hardware to implement IPv6 migration techniques, and focused on many important theoretical concepts such as IP addresses planning and OSPF routing in order to make sure that these solutions are applicable in reality.