Course Description
Class runs 8:30am to 4:30pm (flexible). Includes PowerPoint driven lecture and hands-on labs. Course includes a full-page color manual and all lab equipment.
Course Length: 4-5 days (customizable)
Location: On-site, Online, In-Town (Harrisburg / Philadelphia)
Overview of Classroom Lecture & Labs
Classroom topics include:
- IPv4 addressing & subnetting
- State of IPv6 – Why aren’t we there yet?
- IPv6 RFCs – IETF and how to participate
- IPv6 address formatting
- IPv6 header structure
- IPv6 Addressing (Types, Prefix, Global routing, Global unicast, Anycast addresses, Multicast addresses, Special exception addresses, Default addresses
- Security with IPv6 (IPsec)
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- Applications in modern communications
- QoS applied by LTE carriers in IMS networks, Using QoS
- Routing Protocols
- Routing tables
- OSPF3 – OSPF for IPv6
- RIPng
- RIPng
- Routing protocols for IPv6
- Using basic services over IPv6 (UDP/TCP, SCTP, DHCP, SLP, FTP, Telnet, Apache
- IPv6 and the DNS
- DNS and the ‘root 13’
- Resource records
- Zones files
- Setting up a local DNS
- IPv6 and IPv4 interoperability
- Dual-stack options
- Tunneling
- Integration in an IPv4 world
- Security concerns
- Network Address Translation – Protocol Translation (NAT-PT)
- IPv6 and VoIP
Lab objectives include:
- Designing an IPv6 network
- Enabling an IPv4 network for IPv6 addressing
- Using Wireshark
- IPv6 and Wireshark
- Virtualizing IPv6 networks in the lab
- Students configure a network for IPv6 addressing in the following environments:
- Linux – Red Hat (CentOS), Ubuntu & Arch
- Microsoft Windows
- Apple Mac (OS X)
- Cisco Routers
- OpenBSD