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
- Internet history
- IPv6 history
- Terminology
- IP network philosophy
- Why – or why not?
IPv6 Addressing
- Address-space Comparison
- Address Presentation
- Address Types
- Address Scope
- Multicasting
- Address Resolution
- Address Selection
IPv6 Headers
- IPv4 – IPv6 Comparison
- IPv6 Base Header
- Routing Header
- Fragment Header
- IPsec Fundamentals
- Option Header
ICMP and Auto-configuration
- Overview of ICMP Messages
- Error Messages
- Neighbor Discovery
- Stateless Auto Configuration
- ICMP Redirect
- Path MTU Discovery
- Router Renumbering
Affected Mechanisms
- DHCPv6 (Stateful Auto Configuration)
- IPv6 over Ethernet
- Transport layer
- DNS and the Quad A (AAAA) record
- Generic Application Issues
- SIP and IPv6
Transition
- Configured tunneling
- 6to4
- 6rd – rapid deployment
- ISATAP
- Teredo
- Dual Stack
- NAT444
- DSLite
- NAT64
Mobile IPv6
- Why Mobile IPv6?
- Mobile IPv6 building blocks
- Message flows
IPv6 Security
- The protocol stack
- Firewalling and filtering
- Denial of service
- Neighbor discovery and SEND
- Tunneling issues
- IPSec
IPv6 Practical exercises during the course
- Addressing
- Networking tools
- Neighbor discovery
- Stateful and stateless auto configuration
- 6to4 tunneling
- 6in4 tunneling
- Applications
- DNS
- Web/http
- FTP
