Target audience
The target group for this course is is technical personnel or others who need technical knowledge in the area.
Prerequisites
The students are expected to have a basic network understanding equivalent to the course Data Communications Fundamentals, as well as a knowledge in TCP/IP equivalent to the course TCP/IP in Practice.
Excercises
This is a theoretical training with practical exercises.
NOTE: This course is not delivered with the FoldOut methodology
Course content
Introduction
- Backround / statistics / history
- Address assignment
- Overview of differences from IPv4
Addresses
- Notation
- Prefixes / scope
- Link local addresses
- Multicasting
- Address selection
Networking logic
- ICMPv6
- NDP
- Address configuration
Headers
- The IPv6 base header
- Optimizations for traffic
- Extension headers
Impact
- Affected layers
- DHCPv6 & DNS
- Software development
- Security
Transition
- IPv4 and IPv6 interoperability
- The provider view
- Current solutions in the market
Practical exercises during the course
- The IPv6 Address
- Address Selection
- Address Configuration
- Solicited-Node Multicast
- Address Resolution
- Neighbour Solicitation and Advertisement
- SLAAC
- Packet Headers
- DHCPv6
- DNS
- Transition
- Troubleshooting
