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. Navigating the Course

    2. Setting the context

    3. Course Startup Poll

    4. Pre-Requisite Knowledge

    5. Why IPv4 Has Lasted This Long And Why It Is Not Sustainable

    6. What is IPv6 and why do we need it?

    1. Understand and Work with IPv6 Addresses

    2. Global Unicast Addresses

    3. Link Local Addresses

    4. Mid-course Poll

    5. IPv6 Multicast Addresses

    6. Generating IPv6 Interface Identifiers

    7. Anycast Addresses

    1. IPv6 from an IPv4 Perspective

    1. Final Exam

    2. End of Course Poll

    3. So what’s next?

About this course

  • Free
  • 17 lessons

Course Lead

Bashir Angode

Trainer