IPv6 Fundamentals: A Straightforward Approach to Understanding IPv6

Course Code: CS-IPv6F

Organizations are increasingly transitioning to IPv6, the next-generation protocol for defining how devices of all kinds communicate over networks. This 5-day course will instill the knowledge and skills you need to deploy and operate IPv6 networks.

  • Duration: 5 Days
  • Level: Fundamental
  • Technology: Cisco IPv6
  • Delivery Method: ILT or VLIT
  • Training Credits: N/A

This course is intended for individuals working in an enterprise IT environment.

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows:

- Fundamental Routing and Switching knowledge

- Fundamental understanding of networking technologies and network design and deployment

- CCNA Recommended

On completion of this course, participants should be familiar with:

- How IPv6 supports modern networks encompassing the cloud, mobile, IoT, and gaming devices

- Comparing IPv6 with IPv4 to see what has changed and what hasn’t

- Understand and represent IPv6 addresses for unicast, multicast, and anycast environments

- Master all facets of dynamic IPv6 address allocation with SLAAC, stateless DHCPv6, and stateful DHCPv6 

- Understand all the features of deploying IPv6 addresses in the network including temporary addresses and the privacy extension 

- Improve operations by leveraging major enhancements built into ICMPv6 and ICMPv6 Neighbour Discovery Protocol 

- Configure IPv6 addressing and Access Control Lists using a common topology 

- Iplement routing of IPv6 packets via static routing, EIGRP for IPv6, and OSPFv3 

- Step-by-step through deploying IPv6 in existing networks, and coexisting with or transitioning from IPv4

There is no exam associated with this course.

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Modules

- Why Transition to IPv6

- IPv4 Address Depletion

- History of IPv6

- IPv6: More Than Just Longer Addresses

- IPv6 Myths

- Hexadecimal Number System

- IPv6 Address Types

- Address Terminology

- ICMPv6 Neighbour Discovery Protocol (NDP)

- Dynamic Address Allocation

- Comparing the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers

- IPv6 over Ethernet

- Packet Analysis Using Wireshark

- Extension Headers

- IPv6 Address Representation and Address Types

- Prefix Length Notation

- IPv6 Address Types

- Unicast Addresses

- Multicast Addresses

- Anycast Addresses

- Structure of a Global Unicast Address

- Manual Configuration of a Global Unicast Address

- Recognizing the Parts of a GUA Address and the 3—1—4 Rule

- Subnetting IPv6

- Prefix Allocation

- General Prefix Option

- Dynamic Addressing Methods with SLAAC and DHCPv6

- Structure of a Link-Local Unicast Address

- Automatic Configuration of a Link-Local Address

- Manual Configuration of a Link-Local Address

- Link-Local Address and Duplicate Address Detection

- Link-Local Addresses and Default Gateways

- ipv6 enable: Isolated Link-Local Address

- Scope

- Well-Known Multicast Addresses

- Solicited-Node Multicast Addresses

- Multicast Listener Discovery

- Dynamic IPv4 Address Allocation: DHCPv4

- Dynamic IPv6 Address Allocation

- DHCPv6 Services

- The RA Message and SLAAC

- Generating an Interface ID

- Autoconfigured Address States and Lifetimes

- Router Advertisement Fields and Options

- Default Address Selection

- Configuring the Router’s Interface as a SLAAC Client

- SLAAC with Stateless DHCPv6

- Implementing Stateless DHCPv6

- DHCPv6 Options

- Stateful DHCPv6 Messages and Process

- Implementing Stateful DHCPv6

- IPv6 Prefix Delegation Options for DHCPv6

- General Message Format 

- ICMP Error Messages

- ICMP Informational Messages

- Neighbour Discovery Options

- Default Router and Prefix Determination

- Address Resolution

- Neighbour Cache

- Duplicate Address Detection (DAD)

- Neighbour Unreachability Detection (NUD)

- Redirect Message

- Configuring a Router as an IPv6 Router

- Understanding the IPv6 Routing Table

- Configuring IPv6 Static Routes

- Verifying IPv6 Static Routes

- Comparing EIGRPv4 and EIGRPv6

- Classic EIGRP for IPv6

- EIGRP Named Mode for IPv6

- Comparing OSPFv2 and OSPFv3

- IPv6 Address Plan Considerations

- IPv6 VLANs

- IPv6 First Hop Redundancy Protocols

- Dual Stack

- DNS

- IPv6 Access Control Lists

- Tansition Technologies

- Tunneling IPv6