IPV6 Basics | Cisco Certification

IPv6 Basics is a 2 day immersion into IPv6 Fundamentals; giving individuals a look at all the major concerns as Enterprises move inevitably towards an IPv6 world. This course is ideally to convert IPv4 understanding into IPv6 expertise.

Pre-Requisites

Individuals attending this course should have a strong network fundamentals background, preferably with hands-on experience building, managing and/or troubleshooting IPv4 networks.

Who should attend?

• Managers, Engineers, Architects or Designers.
• This course is recommended for anyone with a strong technical background who will need all the details to develop the IPv6 knowledge required to sell related products or understanding of a network design/ implementation issue.

Course Objectives

Delegates will be able to meet these overall objectives on completion of this course:

• The main concepts around IPv6
• Various IPv6 applications
• All related IPv6 protocols
• Relevant IPv6 network design concerns
• IPv6 and QoS
• Security on an IPv6 network

Course Outline

IPv4 Review

• This is needed to better understand the evolution from IPv4 to IPv6. This includes IPv4 addressing and workarounds which have extended the life of IPv4 for 20 years.

IPv6 Header

• The evolution of the Internet since IPv4
• IPv6 Header explained
• IPv6 Header Extensions

IPv6 Addresses

• Introduction, representation, format, notation.
• Unicast Addresses: Global Unicast, Unique Local Addresses, how to Reserve a ULA on the web
• Interface ID: EUI-64, Privacy Extension.
• Multicast Addresses
• Anycast Addresses
• Special addresses: loopback, unspecified, site-local deprecated and others reserved addresses.
• Addressing Hierarchy
• Provider Aggregatable Versus Provider Independent
• Multihoming: the issue and the solutions: Router based, Host based, NPT6
• Autoconfiguration Stateful (dhcpv6) and Stateless

ICMPv6

• ICMPv6 Message format
• Error Messages
• Information Messages

Neighbor Discovery Protocol

• MAC address resolution
• Neighbor state machine
• Neighbor Unreachability detection
• Default Router Selection
• Auto configuration
• Multicast Group Management

First Hop Routing Protocols (FHRP)

• Default router Availability
• The solutions: ND, HSRPv6, GLBP, VRRP, RIPng

IPv6 Applications

• DHCPv6
• DNS and what is needed to support for IPv6
• IPv6 Routers and Network Management
• Mobile IPv6, NEMO, MANET

IPv6: Supported Platforms

• Windows
• MAC OS X
• Linux
• Firewalls
• Introduction to the supported Routing Protocols
• RIPng, OSPFv3, ISIS, MP-BGP

Introduction to IPv6 Multicast

• PIM-SM or ASM Versus PIM-SSM
• MLD: Differences between MLDv1 and MLDv2
• Strategies for RP: Static, Embedded RP, Anycast RP, PIM-BSR

Transition to IPv6

• History of the Transition to IPv6 since the beginning of IPv6
• Dual-Stack
• Translation: NAT, NAT-PT, NAT64, NAT46, NAT444, NAT464
• Tunnels: 6in4, 6to4, 6RD, GRE, DVMRP, DS-Lite
• Introduction to MPLS
• IPv6 over MPLS for IPv4: 6PE, 6VPE

QoS in IPv6 Networks

• What is new with IPv6?
• The Flow Label field
• The QoS models for 6PE and 6VPE: Uniform mode, Pipe Mode and Short Pipe mode

Introduction to Security in IPv6

• What do we need to protect, deny or permit from the IPv6 Header?
• Threats on Neighbor Discovery Protocol.
• Cryptographically Generated Address
• Protect the default router with X.509 Certificates
• Secured Neighbor Discovery Protocol (SEND)
• Introduction to IPSec
• IPSec Authentication and Encryption
• DHCPv6, DNS Attacks and Countermeasures
• Use MD5 Authentication or IPSec for Routing Protocols
• Secure DNS: Introduction to DNSSEC
• Secure the routers access
• Secure the Internet connection
• IPv6 Firewalls: Router based or Host based?