Introduction to IPv6

A short technical overview of the Next Generation Internet Protocol - IPv6

You will learn:

  • What IPv6 is
  • The reasons that IPv6 is important to your business
  • The differences between IPv4 and IPv6
  • How IPv6 works
  • The new features of IPv6, including Quality of Service and Security
  • How IPv6 can benefit businesses and improve their use of networking.
  • The current status of IPv6 development
  • The current status of IPv6 deployment
  • Changes to common network services with IPv6
  • Autoconfiguation features of IPv6
  • What is involved in migrating to IPv6

Course Benefits

IPv6 is the result of many years of research and activity by the international Internet community. IPv6 provides increased addressing space, improved routing, better security and support for new applications.

The implementation of IPv6 is inevitable and will impact on all companies that maintain, implement or use IP networks.

In this short course, you will learn about the main features of IPv6 and how it will affect IP networks. This will enable you to determine how IPv6 will impact your organisation and will help you to plan a migration strategy.

Demonstrations will show how IPv6 works, how to implement IPv6 and IPv6 network services and applications.

Course Contents

Introduction - The Need for IPv6

  • History of IP
  • The problems with IPv4
  • Address space
  • Functionality

IPv6 Protocol Basics

  • IPv6 datagram header
  • IPv6 Addressing & Prefixes
  • IPv6 Extension headers
  • ICMPv6

Autoconfiguration of IPv6

  • Autoconfiguration methods
  • Link-Local Addresses
  • IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
  • IPv6 Router Discovery
  • DHCPv6
  • Router Renumbering with IPv6

Internetworking IPv6

  • Routing Tables
  • IPv6 MTU discovery
  • Neighbor reachability
  • IPv6 Dynamic Routing
  • Router renumbering with IPv6

IPv6 Security QoS and Mobility

  • What is Network Security?
  • Cryptographic techniques
  • AH & ESP Headers
  • IPSec Transport and tunnel modes
  • IPSec Security associations
  • What is Quality of Service?
  • IPv6 Traffic Class & Flow Label
  • DiffServ, IntServ & RSVP
  • ISAKMP & IKE
  • The Need for Mobile IP
  • Link layer mobility
  • Mobile IPv4 vs Mobile IPv6
  • Mobile IPv6 in operation

Transport Layer and IPv6

  • Operation of TCP and UDP
  • Ports and Sockets
  • Changes to TCP & UDP

IPv6 and DNS

  • AAAA, PTR, A6 & DNAME RRs
  • ip6.arpa. & ip6.int.
  • A6 chains
  • BIND and MS DNS

The Programming Interface

  • Sockets & Winsock APIs
  • Perl, Java, C etc

Migrating to IPv6

  • IPv4 and IPv6 Compatibility
  • Dual stacks
  • IPv6 Compatibility addresses
  • 6to4 & 6over4
  • ISATAP, Teredo & DSTM
  • IPv6 Tunnel brokers
  • Protocol Translators
  • BIS and BIA
  • IPv6 Compatibility and DNS
  • What, when and how to migrate
  • Reasons to Migrate to IPv6
  • The current status of IPv6
  • Predictions

IPv6 Demonstrations

During the briefing there will be a number of short demonstrations. Demonstrations will be on the major operating systems (Windows, Unix and Linux) as well as Cisco IOS.

The demonstrations will show:

  • Basic IPv6 Configuration
  • Autoconfiguration of IPv6
  • IPv6 Router Configuration
  • Security Configuration
  • IPv6 DNS operation
  • Network monitoring of IPv6

The Lecturers

All our lecturers are practising network consultants with extensive experience of IPv6 networking on Unix and Windows in large commercial environments. They are ideally suited to bringing you an up to date analysis of the status of IPv6.