Course IP6101
Mastering the IPv6 Protocol
Workshop Overview
Mastering the IPv6 Protocol
Duration: 3 Days
Intended Audience
Students are expected to have a good understanding of network concepts and network infrastructure in general and IPv4 networking in particular.
Course Overview
This is an instructor led course with demonstrations. It can also be taught as a practical hands on 5 day course if required.
Topics covered are:
- Basics of IPv6
- IPv6 addressing
- DNS for IPv6
- IPv6 routing protocols
- IPv4 to IPv6 transitioning
- Mobile IPv6
- IPv6 multicasting
- IPv6 security
Course Benefits
This course provides a thorough basic understanding of IPv6 networking for system architects, network engineers and network support staff who will be involved in designing, planning and implementing IPv6 network deployment.
Demonstrations
Practical Demonstrations will include
- Configuration of network interfaces for IPv6 - both on Microsoft Windows and Unix / Linux systems
- Ethernet
- PPP interfaces (including PPPoE)
- Installation and configuration of IPv6 based client and server applications
- HTTP
- SMTP
- POP3 and IMAP
- DNS
- Configuration of routers for IPv6
- RIPng
- OSPFv3
- MP-BGP
- Configuration of mixed IPv4 / IPv6 networks and systems
- dual stack systems
- Tunnel brokers
- VPNs
- ISATAP
- 6to4
- NAT-PT
- IPSec
- network managment and troubleshooting (basics)
- Using protocol analysers
- IPv6 MIB
- RMON and IPv6
- SNMP and IPv6
Course Contents
Overview of networking concepts and layered network protocols
Rationale underlying IPv6
IPv6 protocol overview
IPv6 Header structure
IPv6 address structure and IPv6 addressing strategies
Neighbour discovery and autoconfiguration in IPv6
Path MTU discovery
- extension headers
- fragmentation
IPv6 DNS - theory and practice
DHCPv6
Renumbering under IPv6
IPv6 routing protocols
- distance vector
- link state
- BGP (path vector)
IPv6 Backbone issues
- QoS issues
- Network management issues
Migration to IPv6
- IPv6 islands in an IPv4 environment
- IPv4 islands in an IPv6 environment
- accessing applications via IPv6 and IPv4
- tunnelling and address translation
- Tunnel brokers
- ISATAP
- 6to4
- NAT-PT
IPv6 Security
- IPSec in IPv6
- IPv6 ACLs
Mobile IPv6
- overview of concepts and strategies
Multicasting
- understanding the underlying protocols and mechanisms
- performance, scalability and reliability issues
QoS
- support for QoS in IPv6
- implementation of QoS strategies in IPv6 networks