Learning Objectives

  • Articulate the reasons why deploying IPv6 is critical to the growth of the Internet

  • Identify the different types of IPv6 addresses and their use cases

  • Describe how EUI-64, semantically opaque and pseudo-random interface identifiers are generated

  • List the ways in which IPv6 differs from IPv4 at a packet level

  • Explain the use of IPv6 extension headers

  • Identify IPv6 equivalents for every IPv4-feature you run in your network.

Course curriculum

  1. 01

    • Setting the context

    • Course Startup Poll

    • Pre-Requisite Knowledge

    • Why IPv4 Has Lasted This Long And Why It Is Not Sustainable

    • What is IPv6 and why do we need it?
  2. 02

    • Understand and Work with IPv6 Addresses

    • Global Unicast Addresses

    • Link Local Addresses

    • Mid-course Poll

    • IPv6 Multicast Addresses

    • Generating IPv6 Interface Identifiers

    • Anycast Addresses
  3. 03

    • IPv6 from an IPv4 Perspective
  4. 04

    • Final Exam

    • End of Course Poll

    • So what’s next?

Course Lead

Bashir Angode

Trainer