Hands-on Workshop on IPv6 and CI Training

Overview

This hands-on workshop will cover IPv6 fundamentals and practical deployments. It will start with the basics of IPv6, including IPv6 addressing, global unicast address (GUI), link-local address (LLA), and IPv6 multicast address. The workshop will also cover techniques used to enable auto-configuration of IPv6 addresses: stateless address autoconfiguration (SLAAC), stateless dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP), and stateful DHCP. Then, the workshop will discuss static and dynamic routing on IPv6 networks, covering both intra-domain and inter-domain routing. Finally, the workshop will cover monitoring and configuration of end systems, e.g., configuration of DNS and HTTP servers, access control lists, and perfSONAR. Concepts will be reinforced with hands-on laboratory experiments.

Logistics
 

1. Location: Building and Rooms: the workshop will be in the LSC (Lory Student Center), at 1101 Center Ave Mall, Fort Collins, CO 80521. The rooms are provided below: 

   Date	Start	End	Building	Room
   9/11/2024 Wed	8:00 AM	4:00 PM	LSC	Room 386
   9/12/2024 Thu	8:00 AM	4:00 PM	LSC	Room 390

   
   
2. Parking: the location where visitors may be able to park are: i) visitor day parking (Pay to Park) in lots 310 and 425. Lot 310 is on the north side of the student center and 425 is on the south side of the student center. Pay attention to only park in the pay to park areas. Any area labeled Z or A lots are for faculty/staff so don’t park there. ***Caveat for those presenting, we will get you parking passes and those with parking passes can park there. See building maps: https://lsc.colostate.edu/buildinhg/maps/ 
   
3. Food: there is dining in the Lory Student Center: https://lsc.colostate.edu/dining/

Audience

The workshop is targeted to IT professionals such as system administrators, network engineers, and practitioners in general. The content is also suitable for IT leadership who may want to further understand best practices supporting research and education activities on campus. Additionally, systematic hands-on lab libraries will be made available to educators interested in incorporating the materials on their programs.