IPv6 Address Management Tool

• Concept
• Requirements
• Screenshots
• Contact
• Links

Concept

Painting by Numbers: Visualisation of Structured IPv6-addressing

After getting IPv6-blocks (::/48 or ::/32) everyone has the problem to structure these addresses in an appropriate way, since otherwise the routing-tables will explode. Showing a two-dimensional approach to get a structured address-plan just by coloring squares (painting by numbers) instead of calculating hexadecimal numbers.

Helge Holz, DATAPORT

• Painting by numbers - concept
• Abstract
• Presentation on the V6 World 2015 Conference
• Draft version of the Concept

Requirements

IPAMv6 is a web-server based PHP-Script, which interacts with the browser. For this reason the requirements are very small.

• On the server-side you need a typical Webserver installation with:
  • Apache webserver
  • PHP 5.4
  • MySQL 5.5
  Other software versions should also work well – but i have never tested it.
• On the client-side you only need a modern webbrowser with activated Javascript and HTML5 support

The Installation is also very simple. In a few steps you can just unzip the Script to your webservers directory, create a MySQL database and enter your database credentials to the file: "config.php" - like millions of other web-sever based scripts.

Screenshots

See the IPv6 Address-Mangement Tool in action...

1. add a new root network
2. adding new subnets into your created root-network
3. manage client-networks
4. view all your networks
5. delete a network with or without all of its subnets

Contact

If you have technical questions, want to get access to a demo or want to get a copy of this tool you can directly contact the developer by mail, for questions about the concept you can directly contact the author Helge Holz.

Links

• Dataport
• Developers homepage

© 2015 by Helmut Schimkowski