Discover why IPv6 was created to replace IPv4, addressing the depleting address space and internet growth, with 128-bit addresses and stateless autoconfiguration.

Explore the features of IPv6, compare IPv4 and IPv6 headers, examine extension headers and field differences such as traffic class, payload length, hop limit, and analyze with Wireshark.

Master IPv6 addressing basics, including 128-bit addresses, hextets, and compression rules. Learn unicast, anycast, and multicast, prefix notation, and 64-bit interface IDs with 16-bit subnet IDs in a lab.

Explore IPv6 address types, including global unicast, link-local, multicast, and anycast, with manual and dynamic configuration. Learn SLAAC, DHCPv6, neighbor discovery, and router advertisements for automatic addressing and DAD.

Configure and verify IPv6 address types, including global unicast, link-local, and unnumbered interfaces, and explore multicast and neighbor discovery through hands-on lab exercises.

Explore ICMPv6 and neighbor discovery in IPv6, covering error messages (destination unreachable, packet too big, time exceeded, parameter problem), informational messages (echo request/reply) and multicast listener discovery and redirect messages.

Enable IPv6 unicast routing and use embedded packet capture to analyze ICMPv6 messages, router advertisements, and neighbor discovery across a three-router topology with stateless address autoconfiguration.

Examine how to enable and configure IPv6 in a three-router topology, including global unicast and link-local addresses, neighbor discovery, and router advertisement tuning through hands-on commands.

Configure and verify global unicast and link-local IPv6 addresses on routers, using EUI-64 or manual addressing, enable IPv6 on interfaces, and understand router advertisements and neighbor discovery.

Learn static IPv6 routing and how to configure and interpret the IPv6 routing table, including direct routes, local routes, administrative distance, and the difference from IPv4, with hands-on lab commands.

Configure and verify ipv6 routing with static routes, including directly connected and local entries, using show ipv6 route and show ipv6 route static and manage administrative distance.

Explore dynamic routing protocols for IPv6, compare rip v2 and ripng, and learn to configure and verify ripng to ensure network convergence in a common topology.

Configure RIPng on IPv6 routers, enable the RIPng process on interfaces, set a default route between R3 and R4, and verify with show IPv6 commands.

Explore ipv6 routing with eigrp, compare ipv6 and ipv4 implementations, and master configuration and verification commands, neighbor adjacencies, and convergence with the dual algorithm.

Configure ipv6 eigrp across routers R1, R2, and R3 to share routing information and propagate the default route; verify adjacencies and interface activation with show commands.

Learn OSPFv3, the IPv6 rewrite of OSPF, comparing it to OSPFv2, configuring IPv6 routing, router IDs, areas including stub and not-so-stubby, neighbor adjacencies, and verifying convergence with common commands.

Configure OSPF version three across R1–R4, assign router IDs, enable interfaces in area zero, and distribute the default route from R3, then verify with IPv6 routes and protocols.

Explore IS-IS for IPv6, compare it with IPv4, and configure and verify IS-IS routing using protocol independent commands and interface-level settings on a common topology.

Configure is-is for ipv6 on r1–r3 in a hands-on lab, enabling interfaces, distributing the default route from r3, and verify convergence and reachability across the topology.

Explore multiprotocol BGP for IPv6, compare it with IPv4 BGP, and learn essential configuration and verification commands to ensure network convergence.

Configure BGP for IPV six across R1, R2, and R3 within an IGP domain, exchange IPV six prefixes via iBGP, advertise the default route from R3, and verify connectivity.

Explore IPv6 policy routing, including route maps, match criteria, and set actions to control next hop, output interface, and QoS based on traffic characteristics.

Configure IPv6 IGP and EGP convergence, advertise IPv6 summary routes, then apply IPv6 policy-based routing with acl and route maps to steer R5 via R2 and R6 via R3.

Explore IPv6 redistribution fundamentals, highlighting differences from IPv4, and master configuring and verifying IPv6 redistribution with include connected, using common topology scenarios.

Engage in a hands-on IPv6 redistribution lab, demonstrating mutual redistribution among RIP, OSPF, IGRP, and IS-IS across multiple domains, using static and default routes, with seven scenarios and connectivity verification.

Perform hands-on ipv6 mutual redistribution across domains, configuring egp, rip, and ospf, setting metrics, including connected interfaces, and validating reachability with tcl scripts.

Execute hands-on IPv6 mutual redistribution across RIP, OSPF, and ISIS domains, removing and reconfiguring protocols, and verify end-to-end reachability with TCL scripts.

Execute hands-on IPv6 mutual redistribution across EGP, ISIS, and OSPF, configuring router IDs, metrics, and verification via TCL scripts.

Explore DHCPv6 in IPv6 networks, comparing stateful and stateless services, the DHCPv6 message flow (solicit, advertise, request, reply), rapid commit, and relay agent roles.

Configure stateless dhcpv6 on R1's fast Ethernet 0/1 to serve DNS and other data, enable rapid commit, while hosts use stateless address autoconfiguration.

Learn how the domain name system operates in an IPv6 environment, including DNS basics, records (AAAA and PTR), and IPv6-specific configuration and verification steps.

Configure OSPF across R1, R2, and R3 to enable IPv6 connectivity, map hosts with the IPv6 host command, and enable dns resolution using ip name-server and show hosts.

Explore quality of service in an IPv6 environment, including QoS concepts, benefits, implementation steps, and modular QoS CLI commands to classify, mark, and manage traffic, noting IPv4 differences.

Execute a hands-on QoS lab in an IPv6 environment, marking ICMP and Telnet traffic on R2 and honoring markings on R3 to manage a bottleneck link, with OSPF-enabled topology.

Explore first hop redundancy protocols for IPv6, including GLBP and HSRP, with AVG and AVF roles, virtual IPv6 addresses, and load sharing.

Explore IPv6 high-availability with hands-on HSRP and GLBP lab, configuring OSPF across routers R1–R3, implementing tracking and preemption to verify end-to-end connectivity and IPv6 reachability.

Explore IPv6 network management concepts and commands for Cisco devices, including Telnet/SSH over IPv6, ping, traceroute, SNMP over IPv6, TFTP, and iOS IPv6 Embedded Management components.

Engage in a hands-on IPv6 lab that configures IPv6 addressing and static routes, then demonstrates IPv6 telnet, TFTP, ping, traceroute, SSH, and syslog with access control.

Master dual stack for IPv4 and IPv6 coexistence, learn the transition approach, and see how IPv6 addresses integrate with URLs and DNS in lab configurations.

Explore dual stack networking by configuring IPv4 and IPv6 on routers R1–R4, enabling OSPF v2 and v3, and verifying reachability with a TCL-based test across a shared topology.

Explore tunneling as a core IPv4 to IPv6 transition technique, covering manual, 6to4, and Esatap tunnels and how they transport IPv6 packets over IPv4 networks.

Learn to configure manual ipv6 tunnels over ipv4, including 6to4 and esatap, to connect ipv6 islands via dual-stack edge routers and static ipv6 routes.

Explore NAT64 within IPv6/IPv4 transition techniques to enable IPv6-only clients to reach IPv4 servers and IPv4-only clients to reach IPv6 servers via stateful translation and DNS64.

Explore IPv6 and IPv4 transition techniques through nat-pt, including static and dynamic nat-pt, napt, and dns alg, while assessing limitations and when to use nat64 or dual stack.

Configure static and dynamic nat with nat-pt to translate between ipv6 and ipv4 networks, configure nat prefixes, pools, and source and destination mappings, and verify with ping and debug commands.

Configure and verify 6to4 tunneling to carry IPv6 over IPv4, using loopback or interface addresses, tunnel zero, and automatic destination resolution, with optional isatap deployment.

Explore first hop security in IPv6, covering router discovery, neighbor discovery, and DHCPv6, plus IPv6 access control lists to mitigate attacks on enterprise networks.

Configure ipv6 access lists on routers r1 through r4 to enable ospf connectivity across domains, use ipv6 traffic filter to deny the 2017052e1cc::/48 network, and verify loopback connectivity.

Learn how IPsec provides encryption, authentication, and anti-replay for IPv6 traffic; configure site-to-site IPsec using virtual tunnel interface, ISAKMP/IKE, transform sets, and OSPFv3 authentication.

A hands-on IPv6 lab that configures a VPN between R1 and R4, with IPv6 addressing, static routes, isakmp key, IPsec transform sets, and a tunnel interface protected by IPsec.

Confront complex lab scenarios to optimize IPv6 configurations and integrate advanced IPv6 protocols and services learned across the course, while safely maintaining IPv4 infrastructure.

Engage in a hands-on lab to coexist IPv4 and IPv6, configure OSPF version 2 and version 3, and implement IPv6 addressing and IGP routing across multiple routers.

Build hands-on expertise in advanced IPv6 protocols by configuring IPv6 addressing and bgp between as 6504 and 65123, route reflector, hsrp, and redistribution across r1, r3, and r5, r6 networks.

Configure IPv6 policy based routing on R1 with ACLs and route maps, verify end-to-end reachability via TCL scripts, and implement WAN QoS with nested shaping and policing for BGP traffic.

Configure ssh version 2 with a 15-minute timeout across routers, verify access from r6, and enable syslog logging. Implement IPv6 boundary security with ipv6 acl rules and deny external ssh.