IPv6 Fundamentals
(40 Hours)

Series: Fundamentals and Technology Series

Audience and Prerequisites Overview Course Outline Detail

AUDIENCE AND PREREQUISITES

Engineers, administrators, managers, risk analysts, ethical hackers and anyone interested in learning about IPv6 fundamentals. Knowledge of basic IP is essential.

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OVERVIEW

Mandated by the federal government for compliance across all organizations, IPv6 is a new IP protocol designed to replace IPv4, the Internet protocol that is predominantly deployed and extensively used throughout the world. IPv6 quadruples the number of network address bits from 32 bits (in IPv4) to 128 bits or approximately 3.4 x 1038 addressable nodes, which provides more than enough globally unique IP addresses for every network device on the planet. It is essential for all networking professionals to have knowledge on this topic.

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COURSE OUTLINE

IPv6 Versus IPv4

• The History of IPv6
• Overview of Functionality
• Transition Aspects
• IPv6 Alive

Structure of the IPv6 Protocol

• General Header Structure
• The Fields in the IPv6 Header
• Extension Headers

IPv6 Addressing

• Address Types
• Address Notation
• Prefix Notation
• Format Prefixes
• Address Privacy
• Aggregatable Global Unicast Address
• Anycast Address
• Multicast Address
• Required Addresses

ICMPv6

• General Message Format
• ICMP Error Messages
• ICMP Informational Messages
• Processing Rules
• The ICMPv6 Header in a Trace File
• Neighbor Discovery
• Autoconfiguration
• Path MTU Discovery
• Multicast Group Management

Security in IPv6

• Types of Threats
• Basic Security Requirements and Techniques
• Security in the Current Internet Environment
• Current Solutions
  Open Security Issues in the Current Internet
• The IPSEC Framework
• IPv6 Security Elements
• Security Association Negotiation and Key Management
• Interworking of IPv6 Security with Other Services
• Open Issues in IPv6 Security

Quality of Service in IPv6

• QoS Paradigms
• Quality of Service in IPv6 Protocols
• QoS Architectures
• Mapping IP QoS to Underlying Transmission Networks
• Further Issues in IP QoS

Networking Aspects

• Layer 2 Support for IPv6
• Multicasting
• Mobile IP
• Network Designs

 
Routing Protocols

• RIPng
• OSPF for IPv6 (OSPFv3)
• BGP Extensions for IPv6
• Other Routing Protocols for IPv6

 
Upper-Layer Protocols

• UDP/TCP
• DHCP
• DNS
• SLP
• FTP
• Telnet
• Web Servers

 
Interoperability

• Dual-Stack Techniques
• Tunneling Techniques
• Network Address and Protocol Translation
• Comparison
• Vendor Support

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