Introduce IPv6 as a response to IPv4 address exhaustion, and explain IPv6 addresses and representation. Compare IPv6 with IPv4 and prepare Mikrotik labs to configure IPv6 on the router.

Explain why IPv6 exists beside IPv4 and how IPv4 exhaustion arises from a 32-bit address space. Show how NAT, PAT, and VLSM delay IPv4 exhaustion.

Explain how IPv6 replaces IPv4 with 128-bit addresses, vastly increasing available addresses for ISPs and customers. Highlight the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, hex notation, and coexistence with IPv4.

Discover ipv6 characteristics, including no broadcast and no arp, multicast and stateless autoconfiguration (slaac), mobility, no nat/pat, always-on ipsec, and simpler headers, plus 6to4 and dual-stack migration tools.

Explore how IPv6 addresses are allocated from IANA to RIRs and LIRs, then to ISPs and end customers, and review the current available IPv6 address space.

Learn how IPv6 addresses move from IANA to RIR and LIR to end users, with provider independent assignments and the five RIR allocations.

Explore IPv6 prefix length and how to determine the network versus host portion, then identify and classify IPv6 address types by their denotation.

Identify the IPv6 network prefix and host portion using prefix lengths, parsing eight 16-bit hextets in a 128-bit address, and applying slash notations with practical labs.

Explore IPv6 unique local addresses, designed for internal networks and labs, not internet routable, using the FD00 prefix, a mandatory L-bit, and a 40-bit global ID structure.

Discover how ipv6 multicast addresses work, mirroring ipv4. IPv6 multicast addresses always start with ff, such as ff02::1 for all nodes and ff02::2 for all routers on the local segment.

Learn how IPv6 link-local addresses enable local network communication, using the FE80 prefix and the MAC-based interface ID via the UI 64 method, with neighbor discovery and no routing.

Enable IPv6 on a MikroTik router, connect a PC with IPv6, and verify connectivity. Explore stateless autoconfiguration (slaac), mini DHCP, and DHCPv6 configuration to provide IPv6 addresses.

Enable IPv6 on a MikroTik router and Windows PC, and on Mac as needed, then connect via Winbox over IPv6, using the link-local address to ping and manage the device.

Learn IPv6 subnetting and the global unicast address structure, with a 48-bit global routing prefix, 16-bit subnet, and 64-bit interface id, and how /60 yields 16 subnets of /64.

Learn to configure slaac for IPv6 on a Mikrotik router: set a /60 pool, assign /64s, enable router advertisements, and advertise dns via nd.

Explain dhcpv6 prefix delegation and how MikroTik RouterOS supports only prefix delegation, not host addresses, using an isp scenario with a /40 split into two /48s and /64 subnets.

Learn how to create IP/IP and GRE over IPv6 tunnels to connect separate networks, enable routing updates across tunnels, and encapsulate IPv4 inside GRE within an IPv6 tunnel.

Configure a GRE6 tunnel to connect IPv4 LANs across an IPv6 ISP, encapsulating IPv4 traffic inside a GRE over IPv6 and advertising networks with OSPF.

Learn how to connect an IPv4 network to the IPv6 internet using tunnel brokers. Configure a tunnel on a router with a public IPv4 address to reach IPv6 servers.

Configure a 6to4 tunnel with the Hurricane Electric broker, assign IPv6 to the tunnel and PC, advertise DNS, and verify IPv6 reachability to internet resources.