Afnic training course: IPv6. Training: Understanding and deploying IPv6

The old version of the Internet Protocol, IPv4, has been such a success that we are now faced with a shortage of available addresses. This has the effect of heavily penalising new entrants as well as other players who no longer have enough IPv4 addresses. Maintaining IPv4 is also proving more and more costly for businesses.

It is therefore advisable to migrate to the new version of the protocol (IPv6) in order to manage a scalable and extensible pool of IP addresses.

Description and aims of the training course

This training course will enable you to:

Master the concepts and issues of IPv6
Understand the key factors for a successful transition to IPv6
Organise the deployment of IPv6 within your company

Duration

2 days

Target audience

System and network administrators, CIOs and deputy CIOs

Prerequisites

Experience in one of the following business lines
Familiarity with the TCP/IPv4 protocol suite (the reminder of certain functional aspects of IPv4 will be solely for the purpose of comparison as a teaching aid)

Trainer

Stéphane Bortzmeyer, Afnic DNS & IPv6 Expert

Training location

The training course is given online via our video conferencing tool.
The link to connect will be sent to you once your registration is finalized.

Assessment

Final assessment of the training course will be in the form of a multiple-choice questionnaire.

Cost

DIRECTTE declaration number: 11788446878

Our experts can adapt to your needs and design a custom training course.

Morning
- Consequences of IPv4 address exhaustion
- Understanding addressing in IPv6
  - Format of IPv6 addresses
  - Construction and distribution
  - Allocation mechanism
  - Role of internet registries
- Understanding the IPv6 protocol
  - Format of packages
  - Fragmentation
- Protocols associated with IPv6
  - Neighbour discovery
  - ICMPv6 control protocol
  - Distribution mechanism for DHCPv6 addresses
Afternoon
- How the DNS publishes IPv6 addresses
- Mechanisms for coexistence between IPv4 and IPv6 (and for transition to IPv6)
  - Analysis of the various modes of coexistence
  - Communication models, classification of mechanisms, deployment scenarios, corresponding transition tools
- Challenges involved in migrating a network and a set of applications
- Check list for a successful transition to IPv6