| IPv6 Fundamentals |
| Description |
This is the basic course that we will run by default at all locations where we are doing training for the first time. |
| Target Audience |
Network engineers and systems administrators who are comfortable with implementing and managing IPv4 networks. |
| Pre-requisites |
- IPv4 Addressing and subnetting.
- The OSI model and the various protocols that operate at each layer.
- Intra-domain routing and OSPF.
- How to use the command line interfaces of key routing platforms (e.g Cisco IOS)
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- IPv4 Exhaustion and the case for IPv6 ["Why A New IP?"]
- Why NAT is Not a Sustainable Solution to IPv4 Exhaustion
- IPv6: Fact|Reality vs Fiction/Myth
- Understanding IPv6 Addressing
- Global Unicast
Unique Local Addresses
- Link Local
- Multicast Addresses
- How IPv6 Addresses are Allocated.
- IPv6 Address Planning
- IPv6 from an IPv4 Perspective
- Neighbour Discovery
- ICMPv6 Messages Used by ND
- IPv4 vs IPv6: Head-to-Head
- Packet Structure
- Duplicate Address Detection
- Finding out neighbour's L2 addresses
- Host Configuration [Windows, Linux/Unix]
- Automatic Address assignment - Stateless Address Configuration and DHCPv6
- FQDN-to-IP Address Resolution: DNS
- Subnetting in IPv6
- Fundamentals of Routing in IPv6
- Static routing
- Intra-domain routing with OSPFv3
- Inter-domain routing with BGPv4
- Transition Mechanisms
- The problem that transition mechanisms solve.
- Configuring manual tunnels.
- Configuring 6to4 Automatic tunnels.
- Overview of other translation techniques
- IPv6 Equipment & Software Buyers' Guide
- Labs/Exercises
- Configuring IPv6 clients (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux/Unix)
- Static Configuration
- Automatic Configuration
- Testing IPv6 connectivity with ping6 and traceroute6
- Routing
- Enabling IPv6 routing and configuring IPv6 addresses
- Configuring static routing
- Inter-domain routing with OSPFv3
- Transition Techniques
- Manual tunnels
- Automatic 6to4 tunnels.
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