This two-day, intermediate-level course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of IPv6. The course begins with the fundamentals of IPv6 addressing and packet structure, then progresses through neighbor discovery, autoconfiguration, router advertisements, and key IPv6 services including path maximum transmission unit discovery (PMTUD), Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), and DHCPv6. The second half of the course covers IPv6 routing protocols—OSPFv3, IS-IS, and BGP—followed by IPv6 multicast and transition mechanisms including dual-stack, static tunneling, NAT64/DNS64, and Mapping of Address and Port with Translation (MAP-T). An appendix module covers advanced transitioning mechanisms for service provider environments.
Through lecture and hands-on labs, students will gain experience configuring and verifying IPv6 on Juniper Networks® routers and firewalls running Junos OS. Lab exercises reinforce each major topic, giving students direct experience with interface configuration, routing protocol deployment, multicast setup, firewall filters, and transition mechanism implementation.
This course is based on Junos OS 25.2R1.8 running on Juniper Networks® vMX Virtual Routers in a dedicated student lab environment.