The primary audience for this course is network engineers and technicians who are working in the enterprise sector

Introduction to IPv6

• Explaining the rationale for IPv6
• Evaluating IPv6 features and benefits
• Understanding Market Drivers

IPv6 Operations

• Understanding IPv6 Addressing Architecture
• Describing the IPv6 Header Format
• Enabling IPv6 on Hosts
• Enabling IPv6 on Cisco Routers
• Using ICMPv6 and Neighbor Discovery
• Troubleshooting IPv6

IPv6 Services

• IPv6 Mobility
• Describing DNS in an IPv6 Environment
• Understanding DHCPv6 Operations
• Understanding QoS Support in an IPv6 Environment
• Using Cisco IOS Software Features

IPv6-Enabled Routing Protocols

• Routing with RIPng
• Examining OSPFv3
• Examining Integrated IS-IS
• Examining EIGRP for IPv6
• Understanding MP-BGP
• Configuring IPv6 Policy-Based Routing
• Configuring FHRP for IPv6
• Configuring Route Redistribution

IPv6 Multicast Services

• Implementing Multicast in an IPv6 Network
• Using IPv6 MLD

IPv6 Transition Mechanisms

• Implementing Dual Stack
• Describing IPv6 Tunnelling Mechanisms

IPv6 Security

• Configuring IPv6 ACLs
• Using IPsec,IKE and VPNs
• Discussing Security Issues in an IPv6 Transition Environment
• Understanding IPv6 Security Practices
• Configuring Cisco IOS Firewall for IPv6

Deploying IPv6

• Examining IPv6 Address Allocation
• Understanding the IPv6 Multihoming Issues
• Identifying IPv6 Enterprise Deployment Strategies

IPv6 and Service Providers

• Identifying IPv6 Service Provider Deployment
• Understanding Support for IPv6 in MPLS
• Understanding 6VPE
• Understanding IPv6 Broadband Access Services

IPv6 Case Studies

• Planning and Implementing IPv6 in Enterprise Networks
• Planning and Implementing IPv6 in Service Provider Networks
• Planning and Implementing IPv6 in Branch Networks

Labs

• Lab 2-1: Enabling IPv6 on Hosts
• Lab 2-2: Using Neighbor Discovery
• Lab 3-1: Using Prefix Delegation
• Lab 4-1: Routing with OSPFv3
• Lab 4-2: Routing with IS-IS
• Lab 4-3: Routing with EIGRP
• Lab 4-4: Routing with BGP and MP-BGP
• Lab 5-1: Multicasting
• Lab 6-1: Implementing Tunnels for IPv6
• Lab 7-1: Configuring Advanced ACLs
• Lab 7-2: Implementing IPsec and IKE
• Lab 7-3: Configuring Cisco IOS Firewall
• Lab 9-1: Configuring 6PE and 6VPE

• Cisco CCNA^® certification. ICND1 and ICND2 or CCNABC required
• A CCNP level understanding of networking and routing is required - ROUTE is recommended although no formal certification at CCNP level is required.
• Working knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

• Describe the factors that led to the development of IPv6, and the possible uses of this new IP structure
• Describe the structure of the IPv6 address format, how IPv6 interacts with data link layer technologies, and how IPv6 is supported in Cisco IOS Software
• Describe the nature of changes to DNS and DHCP to support IPv6, and how networks can be renumbered using both services
• Understand the updates to IPv4 routing protocols needed to support IPv6 topologies
• Understand multicast concepts and IPv6 multicast specifics
• Describe IPv6 transition mechanisms and which methods will be most effective in your network
• Describe security issues, how security for IPv6 is different than for IPv4, and emerging practices for IPv6-enabled networks
• Describe the standards bodies that define IPv6 address allocation, as well as one of the leading IPv6 deployment issues, multihoming
• Describe the deployment strategies that service providers are facing when deploying IPv6
• Describe case studies for enterprise, service provider, branch, and access networks