MOREnet Training

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Course Description

Classes are completed in one day unless a different duration is specified.

Networking

Internet2 IPv6 Workshop  

- A fee is required for this course. Please contact MOREnet Training at training@more.net for current fee information.

• Duration: 3.0 days
• Session times:
  First day:   1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  Other days:   9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (deliverable hours = 14.0)

Purpose

Over the course of this workshop, students will design and set up a functioning IPv6 network. This network will be connected to the Internet2 IPv6 network, and thus to the rest of the global IPv6 network. Students will have both external and internal routing configured. Using IPv6 transition tools, students will also gateway between the workshop IPv6 network and the global IPv4 internet.

It is the expectation of Internet2 that, after having experienced one workshop as a student, an attendee will be able to engineer IPv6 networks within his/her campus or gigaPoP, to explain IPv6 engineering concepts to peers, and, in some cases, to help teach or facilitate future IPv6 workshops.

Workshop Content

In detail, the topics covered at this workshop are:

• Router Configuration: How do you turn on IPv6 routing on a router?
• BGP Configuration: Students will configure BGP sessions between the campus, gigaPoP, and core routers.
• Addressing: We will discuss how addressing works, what types of addressing schemes are possible given the number of addresses available, how allocations are made, and current best practices.
• Bind configuration: DNS is extremely important in IPv6. We will address how to populate a server with AAAA records, and how to configure it to perform both forward and reverse lookups. We will discuss best practices, bind versions required, and potential pitfalls.
• Application Space: We will have some students set up IPv6-aware servers, including HTTP and Mail. By the end of the session, we expect to be able to send and receive mail, telnet or ssh and use web access over IPv6 transport.
• Transition Issues: How do you make your IPv6 network IPv4-aware and vice versa? How extensively can you do dual stack implementations and where do you need to do translation?
• Discussion Issues: There are several aspects of IPv6 that we will take some time to discuss. Among them are the effects of multihoming, how auto-configuration affects network administrators and network management.
• Services: What IPv6 services should a campus or gigapop currently offer? What are the best known practices for distributing IPv6 throughout a campus or state network?

For a full description of the course visit the Internet2 IPv6 Workshop web page.

Registration

Registration is required through the Internet2 Workshop page. The discounted price for this class is $650.

A laptop is required--you must bring your equipment with you. Students are asked to bring a laptop capable of running an IPv6 stack. We prefer that these stacks be installed prior to the workshop, but help will be available at the workshop if that is not possible. Laptops should also have an integrated serial port or a USB-to-serial adapter for accessing router console ports.

This course is designed for those who have ALREADY DECIDED that they are going to move to IPv6. A more introductory level class will be offered at a later time.

For additional questions contact Randy Raw