Who should attend: Network program mers and system administrators who will be converting applications and networks from IPv4 to IPv6, and implementors of IPv6. You should have a basic understanding of TCP/IP.

What you will learn: How to transition to IPv6 from the administration and program ming standpoints.

Various proposals have been made to replace IPv4, mainly to overcome its addressing limitations. The successor has been chosen and named IPv6. Numerous working groups have been busy completing the specifications for all facets of IPv6 and implementations are starting to appear. It is expected that vendor-supplied implementations of IPv6 will appear in the coming years and there will be a gradual transition of the Internet to IPv6.

You will get an overview of all aspects of IPv6, approaching it from the perspectives of a system administrator who needs to transition a network from pure-IPv4 hosts and routers to a mixture of IPv4 and IPv6 nodes, and a programmer who needs to convert applications from IPv4 to IPv6.

Topics include DNS support, new socket address structure, address conversion functions, transition mechanisms, automatic tunneling, header fields and extension headers, source routing, path MTU discovery, upper-layer issues, ICMPv6, multicasting, neighbor discovery, CIDR, anycasting, and mobility.

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