A practical introduction to IPV6 for Network and System Engineers

Overview
This is an instructor led course with extensive practical labs. Of the 35hrs of course time, 16 - 18hrs will be devoted to practical lab work.
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.

Practical Work
Extensive hands-on work provides practical experience of IPV6 configuration. Exercises include:

• Configure network interfaces for IPv6 - both on Microsoft Windows and Unix / Linux systems
  • Ethernet
  • ATM
  • PPP interfaces (including PPPoE)
• install and configure IPv6 based client and server applications
  • HTTP
  • SMTP
  • POP3 and IMAP
  • DNS
• configure routers for IPv6 (Cisco and Juniper)
  • RIPng
  • OSPFv3
  • MP-BGP
• configure and experiment with 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

IPv6 and the Internet IPv6 Multihoming IPv6 Deployment