• Description

  This course provides an understanding and hands-on exposure to IPv6, its structure, operation, and technical features. IPv6 addressing and architecture is discussed in detail, and the issues related to the deployment, transition and coexistence with IPv4 are examined.

  This course also includes hands-on IPv6 configurations on host computers as well as IPv6 network building and configuration scenarios. Participants will have the opportunity to work on lab exercises related to deploying IPv6 in dual-stack operational IXP/ISP environments as well as native IPv6 transit.

  IPv6 policy and address allocations are discussed, as are the issues related to the current status of IPv4 free pool allocation and the deployment status of IPv6.

  
  This course will be conducted by highly qualified IPV6 Professionals from AfriNIC for three consecutive days, and hosted by ITEC Teams Ltd. Target Audience Network engineers,systems administrators, ISPs, Telecoms, and any other group (s) who are comfortable with implementing and managing IPv4 networks or looking forward to deploy IPV6 in their Organizatons / Companies
  Pre-requisites
  • IPv4 Addressing and subnetting.
  • The OSI model and the various protocols that operate at each layer.
  • Intra-domain routing and OSPF.
  • How to use the command line interfaces of key routing platforms (e.g Cisco IOS)
• IPv4 Exhaustion and the case for IPv6 ["Why A New IP?"
• Why NAT is Not a Sustainable Solution to IPv4 Exhaustion
• IPv6: Fact|Reality vs Fiction/Myth
• • Global Unicast Unique Local Addresses
  • Link Local
  • Multicast Addresses
  • How IPv6 Addresses are Allocated.
• IPv6 Address Planning
• IPv6 from an IPv4 Perspective
  • Neighbour Discovery
  • ICMPv6 Messages Used by ND
  • IPv4 vs IPv6: Head-to-Head
    • Packet Structure
    • Duplicate Address Detection
    • Finding out neighbour's L2 addresses
    • Host Configuration [Windows, Linux/Unix]
    • Automatic Address assignment - Stateless Address Configuration and DHCPv6
    • FQDN-to-IP Address Resolution: DNS
    • Subnetting in IPv6
• Fundamentals of Routing in IPv6
  • Static routing
  • Intra-domain routing with OSPFv3
  • Inter-domain routing with BGPv4
• Transition Mechanisms
  • The problem that transition mechanisms solve.
  • Configuring manual tunnels.
  • Configuring 6to4 Automatic tunnels.
  • Overview of other translation techniques
• IPv6 Equipment & Software Buyers' Guide
• Labs/Exercises
  • Configuring IPv6 clients (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux/Unix)
    • Static Configuration
    • Automatic Configuration
    • Testing IPv6 connectivity with ping6 and traceroute6
  • Routing
    • Enabling IPv6 routing and configuring IPv6 addresses
    • Configuring static routing
    • Inter-domain routing with OSPFv3
  • Transition Techniques
    • Manual tunnels
    • Automatic 6to4 tunnels.
• Understanding IPv6 Addressing

NB: Participants are advised to use their own laptops, WI-FI enabled

Registrations for Kenya can also be done through: http://www.afrinic.net/training/registration.htm