Implementing and Securing IPv6

The Need for IPv6 (Summary(

• History of IP
• The problems with IPv4
• The IPv4 header format
• Address space & functionality
• IPv4 Security and QoS
• Reality Check: IPv6 vs IPv4

The Features of IPv6 I

• IPv6 datagram format and header
• IPv6 extension headers
• Hop-by-hop and destination options
• Routing header, fragmentation header
• Mobility header and No next header
• IPv6 addresses
• IPv6 address representation
• Unicast Multicast & Anycast in IPv6
• Link local, site local and unique local addresses

The Features of IPv6 II

• Summary of the new features of IPv6
• ICMPv6
• Path MTU discovery (PMTU)
• IPv6 multicast group management
• MLD and MLDv2

Auto-configuration of IPv6 I

• Autoconfiguration methods
• Choosing the interface identifier
• Modified EUI-64
• CGA, HBA, Privacy and Temporary Addresses
• Neighbour discovery in IPv6 (NDP)
• IPv6 router discovery (RS and RA)
• IPv6 Router renumbering

Auto-configuration of IPv6 II

• DHCPv6
• DHCPv6 Relay Agents
• DUIDs and IAIDs
• Stateless DHCPv6
• DHCPv6 prefix delegation (PD)

Internetworking IPv6 (Summary)

• IPv6 routing and IPv6 routing tables
• IPv6 default routes

IPv6 Dynamic Routing

• ICMPv6 redirects
• RIPng
• OSPFv3
• IS-IS and IPv6
• EIGRPv6
• BGP4 & IPv6

IPv6 Transition Mechanisms I

• Overview of IPv6 transition mechanisms
• IPv6 dual stacks
• IPv4 compatibility addresses
• Automatic and configured tunnelling
• 6over4 and 6to4
• 6rd - IPv6 rapid deployment
• ISATAP
• Teredo
• Dual stack lite (DSLite)
• Dual stack transition mechanism
• IPv6 Tunnel brokers
• Tunnel setup protocol

• NAT64 and DNS64
• NAT-PT & NAPT-PT
• Transition mechanisms and DNS

DNS and IPv6

• Changes to DNS for IPv6
• Historic DNS support for IPv6
• IPv6 AAAA resource records
• PTR records and IPv6
• Reverse lookups in IPv6
• ip6.arpa. & ip6.int.