If you attended the IPv6 tutorials at SANE 2002 and/or SANE 2004, you
already know how IPv6 can solve the address shortage problem that has
been developing slowly in the current (IPv4) internet. This means
that at some point in the future, IPv6 has to replace IPv4. We're not
quite there yet, but now is a good time to start moving IPv6 out of
the lab into the real world.
This tutorial will tell you how to do that by focussing on:
- enabling IPv6 in popular OSes
- 6to4 and manual tunnels
- setting up an IPv6 router (software based and Cisco/Juniper)
- routing protocols: OSPF and BGP
- where to get IPv6 address space
- IPv6 in the DNS
- some example applications and daemons
- dealing with IPv4-IPv6 interaction and coexistence
- how IPv6 security differs from IPv4 security
Audience participation is encouraged, so bring a laptop with an IPv6-capable OS
and 802.11 if you can. These OSes include: FreeBSD, Linux (depending on the distribution),
MacOS 10.2 and up, Windows XP.
Topics not covered:
Don't expect too much information about the inner workings of IPv6: there will
be very few header format and protocol interaction schematics.
Who should attend?
Anyone who does system or network administration and is interested in
what life will look like with IPv6 enabled should attend. Only
intermediate level knowledge of IPv4 is assumed, previous experience
with IPv6 is not required.
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Iljitsch van Beijnum is a network consultant in The Hague,
Netherlands. He first got interested in unusual network protocols in
the early 1990s when, working in a technical support job for the
Dutch PTT, he discovered he could connect to a DECserver in the
office basement that provided services with intriguing names such as
LAT and MOP. A few years later, Iljitsch found himself in the
emerging ISP business where he learned about system administration,
IP networking, and especially routing.
He became a freelance consultant in 2000 and has written
two books: "BGP" (O'Reilly, 2002) and "Running IPv6" (Apress, 2005).
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