Introduction - The Need for IPv6 (60 minutes)

• History of IP
• Problems with IPv4
• Current status of IPv4
• Limitations of IPv4
  • IPv4 address depletion
  • Route Expansion
  • CIDR, NAT
• Motivation
  • IPng Project
  • 6Bone Project
  • IPv6 RFCs
• Security
• ToS?

Prerequisites

• Internet Protocol version 4
  • Setup
  • Subnetting, with understanding of CIDR
  • Routing
  • NATs
  • Security
  • QoS?

IPv6 Protocol Basics (60 minutes)

• IPv6 Header -- RFC 2460
  • IPv6 Extension Headers
    • Hop-by-Hop Options header
    • Destination Options header
    • Routing header
    • Fragment header
    • IPSec headers (AH & ESP)
  • Differences from IPv4 header
    • TTL changed to Hop Limit
    • No checksums
• Addressing -- RFC 4291
  • Format and Notation
  • Address Types
    • Unicast
    • Multicast
    • Anycast
  • Special Addresses
    • Link-local scoped -- RFC 4291
      • Unspecified address
      • Loopback address
      • Link-local address
    • Site-local scoped -- RFC 4291
      • ULA -- RFC 4193
    • IPv4 based -- RFC 4291
      • IPv4 mapped -- RFC 3493 RFC 4038
      • 6to4 prefix based -- RFC 3056
    • Multicast -- RFC 4291
    • Documentation Addresses -- RFC 3849
    • Global Unicast -- RFC 4291 RFC 3587
• Address Configuration
  • Stateless autoconfiguration -- RFC 4861 RFC 4862 RFC 4339 RFC 3736
  • Stateful autoconfiguration -- RFC 3315 RFC 4361 RFC 3633 RFC 3646 RFC 5007
  • Manual configuration
• ICMPv6 -- RFC 4443
• NDP -- RFC 4861
  • Neighbor Advertisement & Solicitation
  • Router Advertisement & Solicitation
  • Router Redirection messages
  • Duplicate Address Detection

Prerequisites

• Understanding of IPv4 header
• Understanding of Routing Schemes
  • Unicast
  • Broadcast
  • Multicast
  • Anycast
• Understanding of ICMP
• Understanding of ARP, RARP
• Understanding of DHCP

Internetworking IPv6 (30 minutes)

• Routing tables
• PMTU discovery -- RFC 1981
• Neighbor reachability -- RFC 4861
• Dynamic routing

Prerequisites

• IPv4
  • Routing
  • Fragmentation of packets
  • MTU & MSS
  • PMTU discovery
• IPv6 Addressing

IPv6 and DNS (60 minutes)

• AAAA and PTR DNS RRs -- RFC 3596
• Co-existence with IPv4
  • Default Address Selection -- RFC 3484
• Dynamic DNS -- RFC 2136
• Implementations
  • ISC BIND
  • Microsoft DNS Server

IPv6 Security, Mobility and QoS? (60 minutes)

• Introduction to Network Security
• Cryptography Techniques
• IPsec -- RFC 4301
  • Modes of operation
    • Tunnel mode
    • Transport mode
  • Protocols
    • Authentication Header -- RFC 4302
    • Encapulated Security Payload -- RFC 4303
  • ISAKMP -- RFC 2408
  • IKEv2 -- RFC 2409 RFC 4306
• Mobility
  • Introduction to Mobile IP
  • IPv4 Mobility -- RFC 3344 RFC 4721
  • IPv6 Mobility -- RFC 3775
• QoS?
  • Traffic Class
  • Flow Label

Migration to IPv6 (60 minutes)

• Dual Stacks -- RFC 4213
  • IPv4 mapped IPv6 addresses
• NAT
  • NAT-PT -- RFC 2766, RFC 4966
• Tunnel brokers
  • Application support

Prerequisites

• IPv6 routing
• Understanding of tunnelling
• Understanding of NAT

IPv6 on Platforms (90 minutes)

• GNU/Linux
• FreeBSD?
• Cisco IOS
• Microsoft Windows

Prerequisites

• Knowledge of working in GNU/Linux
• Knowledge of working in FreeBSD?
• Knowledge of working in Cisco IOS
• Knowledge of working in Microsoft Windows
• Understanding of IPv6 protocol.

Setting up common IPv6 Applications (30 minutes)

• HTTP Server
  • Apache httpd
• SMTP Server
  • Postfix

Prerequisites

• Understanding of Apache httpd configuration
• Understanding of Postfix configuration
• Understanding of IPv6 protocol

Advanced

• Autoconfiguration
  • DHCPv6 -- RFC 4361
  • Router renumbering -- RFC 2894
• Routing Protocols
  • OSPFv3 -- RFC 5340
  • RIPng -- RFC 2080
  • BGP -- RFC 4271
• Networks
  • IEEE 802 networks
  • PPP
  • NBMA networks
  • ATM, Frame Relay,SMDS