What You'll Learn

• Understand the benefits of IPv6-capable applications
• Perform IPv6 socket programming and porting
• Rewrite client and server application to be IPv6 ready.
• Parsing and mapping IPv6 addresses.

Pre-requisites

The followings are the requirements for this course

• A good knowledge of the TCP/IP protocol suite equivalent to the TCP/IP course
• Basic IPv6 knowledge equivalent to our Certified IPv6 Network Engineer (Silver)
• Applied knowledge in modern programming languages like (C/C++/C#/Java...)
• Basic knowledge of network programming and the concepts associated (sockets, bind, send, host- and network-byte-order)

Course Outline

WHY IPv6?

• Comparison between IPv4 and IPv6
• Addressing
• Mobility
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Routing Efficiency
• Security
• Plug and Play

THE INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP)

• Introduction to IP
• Internet as a Datagram Network
• Internet as a Connectionless Network
• IP Header
• Introduction to Application programming

IPv6 TECHNICAL FEATURES

• IPv6 Architecture
• Address Space
• Fragmentation
• Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU)
• Mobility
• Quality of Service and Routing Efficiency
• Security
• Plug and Play

APPLICATION TRANSITION SCENARIOS AND PROGRAMMING ASPECTS

• Programming Areas that Need to be Addressed
• Data Structure
• Function Calls
• Use of Hardcoded IPv4 address
• User Interface Issues
• Underlying Protocols

IPv6 PORTING TOOLS

• Tools and Resources for Porting
• Using Checkv4 tool

BASIC SOCKET INTERFACE EXTENSION FOR IPv6

• Basic Socket Programming
• Socket Interface
• IPv6 Address Family and Protocol Family
• IPv6 Address Structure
• Interface Identification
• Name to Address
• Address to Name
• Socket Options

IP VERSION-INDEPENDENT APPLICATIONS

• Functions to Create IP Version-Independent Applications

Certification Exam (Theory)

• Certification Exam

API Modifications

• Winsock API
• Changes to API

ADVANCED SOCKET INTERFACE EXTENSIONS FOR IPv6

• The ip6_hdr Structure
• The ICMPv6 Header Structure
• IPv6 Raw Socket
• Access to IPv6 and Extensions Headers

IPv6 BASED APPLICATIONS

• Examples of IPv6 Applications Used Worldwide