HBT320 - IPv6 Address Planning

The IPv6 address space is enormous, vast, immense, massive, cosmic, colossal, stupendous, jumbo—astronomical, even. And yet even this list of adjectives doesn't begin to help one grasp its actual scale when placed in front of the deceptively brief 2¹²⁸ (or 3.4x10³⁸, or even 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 if you're not into the whole brevity thing). As a result, network architects and IT engineers who are familiar with IPv4 are very often unprepared to effectively design and deploy an IPv6 address plan when handed an enormous block of contiguous IPv6 address space.

But don't panic! Using industry-tested best-practices, this class is designed to provide both the theoretical and practical knowledge required by anyone interested in creating and deploying a manageable and durable IPv6 addressing plan for an enterprise or service-provider network of any size.

Who This Class Is For:

Network architects, engineers, or any other IT staff responsible for IP address management or address plan design, especially. But of course anyone, in any IT department role (including system administrators, network administrators, helpdesk support folks, DevOps teams, application developers) with an interest in the topic is also welcome and encouraged to attend. 

Class Format:

This all-online class will be a combination of lecture and open discussion.  The goal of the class is to provide introductory to advanced-level information on IPv6 address planning to in preparation for an planned (or unplanned) IPv6 roll-out. 

Class Schedule:

Class Outline:

This is a 1-day technical class on IPv6 address planning, both principles and best-practices. The class will cover the following topics:

IPv6: Introduction, Addressing, and Subnetting – 3.5 Hours – 8:00AM to 11:30AM

• IPv6 Introduction
  • History of IPv4
  • IPv4 address exhaustion
    • Classful subnetting, VLSM, and NAT
  • The Development of the IPv6 Standard
  • Overcoming “IPv4 Thinking”
• IPv6 Addressing
  • Address Format and Scopes
  • Address Types, Global, local, multicast
  • IPv6 Address Structure
  • Interface Identifiers (IIDs)
• IPv6 Subnetting
• Working with hexadecimal
• Understanding the significance of nibble boundaries
• Standard IPv6 subnet sizes

Lunch Break – 11:30AM to 12:30PM

IPv6 Address Planning, Principles and Best Practices – 3.5 Hours – 12:30PM to 4:00PM

• IPv6 Address Planning, Principles and Best-Practices
  • IPv6 Allocations
    • Allocation types
    • Standard allocation sizes
    • Obtaining an IPv6 allocation
  • Working with nibble boundaries
  • Encoding location and/or function information in the prefix
  • Intra-site planning and inter-site planning
  • Prefix assignment methods
  • IPv6 Address Plan examples
    • Enterprise
    • Service provider
  • Next-steps discussion and class survey