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User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and IPv6 UDP (protocol 17) is considered an upper-layer protocol by IPv4 and IPv6. UDP has not been changed for IPv6 and continues to run on top of both IPv6 and IPv4 headers. However, as shown in Figure 2-7, the Checksum field in the UDP packet is mandatory with IPv6.
With IPv6: yes, if you open the port in your firewall. With IPv4 you can do it with a port forward.
Finally on most operating systems it is possible for a server listening on :: to accept connections over both IPv4 and IPv6. There is a socket option called "IPV6_V6ONLY" to enable/disable this behaviour. The default setting for this option varies.
They work almost the same as today. However, be sure you include [] around your IP.
For example : http://[1fff:0:a88:85a3::ac1f]:8001/index.html
Wikipedia has a pretty good article about IPv6: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Addressing
The protocols used in IPv6 are the same as the protocols in IPv4. The only thing that changed between the two versions is the addressing scheme, DHCP [DHCPv6] and ICMP [ICMPv6]. So basically, anything TCP/UDP related, including the port range (0-65535) remains unchanged.
Edit: Port 0 is a reserved port in TCP but it does exist. See RFC793
Wikipedia points out that the syntax of an IPv6 address includes colons and has a short form preventing fixed-length parsing, and therefore you have to delimit the address portion with []. This completely avoids the odd parsing errors.
(Taken from an edit Peter Wone made to the original question.)
They're the same, aren't they? Now I'm losing confidence in myself but I really thought IPv6 was just an addressing change. TCP and UDP are still addressed as they are under IPv4.
I'm pretty certain that ports only have a part in tcp and udp. So it's exactly the same even if you use a new IP protocol
I would say the best reference is Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's where usage of [] is defined.
Also, if it is for programming and code, specifically Java, I would suggest this readsClass for Inet6Address java/net/URL definition where usage of Inet4 address in Inet6 connotation and other cases are presented in details. For my case, IPv4-mapped address Of the form::ffff:w.x.y.z, for IPv6 address is used to represent an IPv4 address also solved my problem. It allows the native program to use the same address data structure and also the same socket when communicating with both IPv4 and IPv6 nodes. This is the case on Amazon cloud Linux boxes default setup.
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