Ipv6 Essentials

Silvia Hagen has been in the networking industry since 1990, and became a CNE and CNI in 1992. She began her career as a successful instructor, and has trained hundreds of system engineers. Today she is CEO of Sunny Connection AG in Switzerland and works as a senior consultant and analyst for many mid-size and large sized companies. Her expertise is in Directory Services and Protocol Analysis. She is the author of the successful book 'Novell's Guide to Troubleshooting TCP/IP', published by Novell Press and 'SLP - Guide to Service Location Protocol', published by Podbooks. She also presents internationally on various networking topics for Universities, Novell's Brainshare, NetWare Users International Conferences and also offers customized corporate presentations. For more details and contact information visit her website at http://www.sunny.ch.

Preface 1. IPv6 Versus IPv4 The History of IPv6 Overview of Functionality Transition Aspects IPv6 Alive 2. The Structure of the IPv6 Protocol General Header Structure The Fields in the IPv6 Header Extension Headers 3. IPv6 Addressing Address Types Address Notation Prefix Notation Format Prefixes Address Privacy Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Anycast Address Multicast Address Required Addresses 4. ICMPv6 General Message Format ICMP Error Messages ICMP Informational Messages Processing Rules The ICMPv6 Header in a Trace File Neighbor Discovery Autoconfiguration Path MTU Discovery Multicast Group Management 5. Security in IPv6 Types of Threats Basic Security Requirements and Techniques Security in the Current Internet Environment Current Solutions Open Security Issues in the Current Internet The IPSEC Framework IPv6 Security Elements Security Association Negotiation and Key Management Interworking of IPv6 Security with Other Services Open Issues in IPv6 Security 6. Quality of Service in IPv6 QoS Paradigms Quality of Service in IPv6 Protocols QoS Architectures Mapping IP QoS to Underlying Transmission Networks Further Issues in IP QoS 7. Networking Aspects Layer 2 Support for IPv6 Multicasting Mobile IP Network Designs 8. Routing Protocols RIPng OSPF for IPv6 (OSPFv3) BGP Extensions for IPv6 Other Routing Protocols for IPv6 9. Upper-Layer Protocols UDP/TCP DHCP DNS SLP FTP Telnet Web Servers 10. Interoperability Dual-Stack Techniques Tunneling Techniques Network Address and Protocol Translation Comparison Vendor Support 11. Get Your Hands Dirty Sun Solaris Linux Microsoft Applications Cisco Router Description of the Tests Vendor Support A. RFCs B. IPv6 Resources C. Recommended Reading