Course Content
Introduction to IPv6
- IPv6 Features and benefits
- IPv6 Header Format
- IPv4 Compatibility
- Dual stacks
- Tunneling
- Protocol Translators
- IPv6 Operation
- IPv6 Addressing Architecture
- ICMPv6 and Neighbor Discovery Protocol
- Using DNS and DHCP with IPv6
- Supporting Security and Mobility with IPv6 Routing in IPv6 Networks
- Routing with RIPng
- Routing with Integrated IS-IS Protocol
- Routing with BGP4+ Protocol
- Using IPv6 services
- Using IPv6 Access control lists
- Using IPv6 access technologies
- Using IPv6 SSH
- Using IPv6 DNS AAA client
IPv6 Protocol Fundamentals
- Comparison with IPv4
- Protocol header
- Routing and Security
- Applications and Migration
- IPv6 addressing details
- IPv6 headers and extension headers
- IPv6 transition strategies
- Overview of IPv6-compliant software and hardware solutions
- Quality of Service
- Performance
- Implementation issues
- Competing standards and protocols
IPv6 operation and Architecture
- IPv6 operation
- IPv6 addressing architecture
- IPv6 extension headers
- IPv6 routing
- RIPng, routing with integrated IS-IS protocol, Routing with BGP4+ protocol
- IPv6 authentication and security
- Autoconfiguration
- ICMPv6 and Neighbor Discovery Protocol
- Network addressing
- Supporting security and mobility with IPv6
- Mobile IPv6
- IPv6 and Quality of Service
- Traffic Class & Flow Label
- DiffServ & IntServ
- Using DNS and DHCP with IPv6
IPv6 Name Services
- DNS and IPv6
- BIND on Unix and Linux
- DNS on Windows
- New resolver API
- AAAA, PTR, A6 & DNAME RRs
- ip6.arpa. & ip6.int
- A6 chains
- DNS - Bind 9
- BlueCat DNS
- Microsoft DNS
- BIND and MS DNS
IPv6 Technical
- Extension Headers
- The IPv6 Address Architecture
- Neighbor discovery and solicitation
- Stateful autoconfiguration with DHCPv6
- Duplicate Address Detection (DAD)
- Creating link-local, site-local and global addresses
- IPv6 and QoS
- Traffic class & flow label
- DiffServ & IntServ
- IPv6 Security
- IPv6 and MPLS
- API changes
- Dynamic Updates
- IPv6 services
- IPv6 access control lists
- IPv6 access technologies
- IPv6 SSH
- IPv6 DNS AAA Client
- Cisco IOS features as examples
IPv6 Migration, Transition and Implementation
- Basic transition mechanisms
- Addressing and routing
- Minimizing administrative workload
- Security
- Mobility transition features of IPv6
- Transition design and planning
- The dual-stack transition method
- Automatic tunneling
- Tunneling
- Managing IPv4 address space
- The role of the DNS
- Connecting IPv6 islands
- Configured and automatic tunnels
- Negotiating with a tunnel broker
- 6to4 and 6over4 solutions
- Bridge between IPv4 and IPv6
- Deploying dual stack models
- Application Changes
- Basic Internet commands
- Ping, telnet, FTP
- Mail and Web-Servers
- The Programming interface
- Sockets library
- Winsock library
- Overview of Perl and other languages
IPv6 Deployment Strategies and scenarios
- The scope of IPv6 deployment
- Deploying dual stack
- Deploying Overlay Tunnels
- Deploying 6PE over MPLS
- IPv6-only to IPv4 -only Strategies
- Using NAT-PT
- Troubleshooting IPv6 Network)
- The 6Bone Network
- The IPv6 Internet
- Connecting to the IPv6 Internet
- IPv6 Host Configurations (Solaris,MS Windows,FreeBSD,Tru64)
- Cisco IOS IPv6 phases (case study)
- OSPFv3
- Multi-Topology IS-IS for IPv6
- IPv6 over MPLS (6PE)
- IPv6 QoS
- DHCPv6 prefix delegation
- Radius RFC 3162 AAA
- IPv6 multicast feature set including Embedded-RP
- IPv6 management and operations
IPv6 Security and mobility
- IPSec
- AH and ESP Headers
- Authentication & Confidentiality
- Virtual Private Networking (VPN)
- Mobile IP
- Mobile IPv6
- Wireless IP mobility
- Roaming with IPv6
- Mobile IP protocols and design
IPv6 deployment and migration Case Studies
