Internet2 IPv6 Workshop in Salt Lake City, Utah

10-12 July  2002
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

Workshop Logistics

Hosted by the University of Utah

Over the course of this workshop we will design and set up a functioning IPv6 network. This network will be connected to the Internet2 IPv6 network, and thus to the rest of the global IPv6 network. We will have both external and internal routing configured. Using IPv6 transition tools, we will also gateway between the workshop IPv6 network and the global IPv4 internet.

It is our expectation that, after having experienced one workshop as a student, an attendee will be able to engineer IPv6 networks within his/her campus or gigaPoP, to explain IPv6 engineering concepts to peers, and, in some cases, to help teach or facilitate future IPv6 workshops.

In detail, the topics we will cover at this workshop are:

1. Router Configuration: How do you turn on IPv6 routing on a router?
2. BGP Configuration: Students will configure BGP sessions between the campus, gigaPoP, and core routers.
3. Addressing: We will discuss how addressing works, what types of addressing schemes are possible given the number of addresses available, how allocations are made, and current best practices.
4. Bind configuration: DNS is extremely important in IPv6. We will address how to populate a server with AAAA records, and how to configure it to perform both forward and reverse lookups. We will discuss best practices, bind versions required, and potential pitfalls.
5. Application Space: We will have some students set up IPv6-aware servers, including HTTP and Mail. By the end of the session, we expect to be able to send and receive mail, telnet or ssh and use web access over IPv6 transport.
6. Transition Issues: How do you make your IPv6 network IPv4-aware and vice versa? How extensively can you do dual stack implementations and where do you need to do translation?
7. Discussion Issues: There are several aspects of IPv6 that we will take some time to discuss. Among them are the effects of multihoming, how auto-configuration affects network administrators and network management.
8. Services: What IPv6 services should a campus or gigapop currently offer? What are the best known practices for distributing IPv6 throughout a campus or state network?

For information, contact:

• Dale Finkelson <dmf@unl.edu>
• Michael Lambert <lambert@psc.edu>, or
• Bill Cerveny <cerveny@internet2.edu>

Workshop Information

• Agenda
  Syllabus - Draft Agenda
  The workshop will begin on Wednesday, 10 July at 1pm and end Friday, 12 July at noon at the Eccles Broadcast Center (EBC), 101 S Wasatch Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Registration
  Registration can be completed at https://secure.chpc.utah.edu/ipv6.register.shtml.
• Accomodations
  A block of rooms are being held at the University Guest House, phone number: (888)416-4075.
• Directions
  Directions are available to the meeting facility, the Eccles Broadcast Center and the recommended lodging, the University Guest House.
• Acknowledgements
  This workshop is made possible with contributions by the University of Utah, the University of Nebraska, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, the Abilene NOC, Cisco Systems, and Juniper Networks.
• What to Bring
  Students are asked to bring a laptop capable of running an IPv6 stack. Linux or *BSD based systems will offer the most tools and applications, but Windows 2000 or XP are also suitable. We prefer that these stacks be installed prior to the workshop, but help will be available at the workshop if that is not possible. See this list of IPv6 set-up sites. for more information