Advanced Networking with IPV6 (CSC477) — Notes, Syllabus & Past Questions

Deep dive into IPv6 addressing, routing, and coexistence with IPv4.

Elective Course7 Chapters
Chapter 1Past Questions

Introduction to Networking

OSI Model, IPv4 addressing overview, VLSM & CIDR, Operational and managerial issues of Legacy IPv4 networking, Introduction to smart networking, Overview of Programmable networks: SDN and NFV.

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Chapter 2Past Questions

IP Next Generation

Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), History of IPv6, IPv6 Header Format, Features of IPv6, IPv6 Addressing, Unicast addressing and its types, Anycast addressing, Multicast addressing and its scope.

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Chapter 3Past Questions

ICMPv6 and Neighbor Discovery

ICMPv6 General Message Format, ICMPv6 Error and Information Message Types, ICMPv6 features and its comparison with ICMPv4, Neighbor Cache and Destination Cache.

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Chapter 4Past Questions

Security and Quality of Service in IPv6

Types of Threats; Security Techniques; IPSEC Framework; QoS Paradigms; QoS in IPv6 Protocols.

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Chapter 5Past Questions

IPv6 Routing

RIPng; OSPF for IPv6; BGP extensions for IPv6; PIM-SM & DVMRP for IPv6.

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Chapter 6Past Questions

IPv4/IPv6 Transition Mechanisms

Migration Strategies; Tunneling, dual stack and translations; Transition techniques; 6RD; Dual-stack lite; Stateful/Stateless AFT; 464XLAT, CGNAT; Other recent techniques.

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Chapter 7Past Questions

Future networking

Operation of SDN and NFV, Introduction to SDN based IPv6 Networking, SDN migration methods and practices, Features of Software-Defined IPv6 Networks (SoDIP6).

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