IPv6 Essentials - Foundations of the new Internet Protocol
What you'll learn
- Understand why we need IPv6 and why it is here to stay
- Know how IPv6 addressing works and what types of addresses there are
- Know where to get those addresses
- Be able to divide or subnet an IPv6 network
- Know what's new in ICMPv6 (aka. how do you ping and traceroute?)
- Tell what the IPv6 header looks like and how it can be modified by Extension Headers
- Explain how Neighbor Discovery works (this replaces ARP)
- Configure devices to get their addresses (using DHCPv6 or stateless address autoconfiguration). We will not go into detail how IPv6 is configured on any specific vendor's software and hardware and cover the technology aspects instead. By knowing how the technology works, you will know what to look for when selecting new hardware, software, or when you need to find out how a specific configuration is done on your devices. I will show examples on Cisco IOS, Juniper JUNOS, HP, Windows and Linux for reference
- Tell what changed in DNS and how to make your website IPv6 enabled
- Run IPv6 side by side in your IPv4 network without impact (Dual Stack)
- Know what routing protocols are available for IPv6 and what the major differences to IPv6 routing protocols are
- Know what tunneling options are available and how to connect IPv6 islands over IPv4 networks
- Secure your network and keep malicious threats out
- Tell what the best practices are when setting up your secure IPv6 network
- Connect to the IPv6 Internet in the perfect way depending on your network
- Monitor your IPv6 network
- Plan and manage your IP addressing
- Connect to IPv4 hosts when you are IPv6-only and don’t run Dual Stack
Requirements
- You should be familiar with IPv4
- Knowing how to subnet IPv4 is a plus (don't have to be fast, just know the basics)
- You should know what ARP does in an IPv4 network
- Knowing about VPN tunnels, what they are used for and how they work is a plus
Description
IPv6 is not only the future of networking, it is already here today! All the big players on the Internet are already IPv6 enabled and it is now time for you to join the party!
Apart from the Internet, all other networks - from corporate to your home network - also run IP and are affected by the change that is happening right now as you read this!
This course covers all major aspects of the new Internet Protocol and what changed, compared to IPv4. You will understand the fundamentals and be ahead of your peers that are still on the sinking ship of IPv4! As of today, there are no IPv4 addresses left and we have no other option but to go ahead and deploy IPv6.
Your trainer has 14 years of experience deploying, engineering and running IPv6 and you will directly benefit from this!
The course is divided into 8 topics and spans over 31 videos with a combined length of more than 2 hours. Additionally over 50 PDF documents for quick reference and review are provided for your convenience.
The length of the training is optimised for a quick look into IPv6, covering everything you need to know and without getting too much into details that you don't need to know today.
Enjoy - and welcome to the future of networking!
Who this course is for:
- This essentials class is vendor independent and interdisciplinary. The target audience is system administrators, network engineers and IT support staff. You will need a solid understanding of IPv4. There is no need for detailed knowledge about routing protocols or server applications, but you should be familiar with networks and how computers interact using IPv4.
Course content
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Instructor
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Volker D. Pallas is a Senior Network Engineer and Instructor who works for many different medium to large customers in design, troubleshooting and optimization of complex inter-vendor networks.
He started using IPv6 in 2001 when establishing his first tunnel over the IPv4 Internet, to provide IPv6 connectivity to a local network. Until today he has successfully completed many real world IPv6 projects, from small businesses up to web-scale architectures.
Apart from networking he has more than 10 years experience as a UNIX and Linux engineer.
He is member of the Regional Internet Registry RIPE NCC and knows first hand about current and upcoming Internet technologies.