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IPV6 - CCNA need to knows

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SS Trooper

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I will be taking my CCNA within a month and I have little to no knowledge on IPv6. Can anyone post some information or links on IPv6. I have a critical need for IPv6/Ipv4 technologies such as dual stack.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
 
The Cisco website (not the training site, the main site) has a couple very good tutorials on IPv6 ... they're not all encompassing, but they tend to cover the primary topics, certainly enough to cover CCNA knowledge levels.
 
I strongly recommend before you start with a date in mind that you step back and get a solid study book to work through. Both the Todd Lammle's guide and the Cisco Press book are recommended. I personally used the Cisco Press book which comes with an excellent set of practice questions.

To answer your question about IPv6 in particular, let me point you to the things you're going to want to learn about. Between Wikipedia, Cisco's whitepapers, and some googlefu you should be able to get the info you need.

IPv6 address format, EUI-64, reserved prefixes (like FF00::/8), zero compression, differences between IPv6 and IPv4 headers, network discovery protocol, static/dynamic address assignment, stateful and stateless DHCPv6 servers, general IPv6 commands (enabling it on a router and specific interfaces), IPv6 routing protocols (names and basic configuration), dual stack, tunneling, manually configured tunnels, dynamic 6to4, ISATAP, Teredo tunneling, and NAT-PT.
 
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IPV6 even at the CCNP level was pretty basic. I have no experience with it at the CCNA level since my CCNA predated that.

Just passed my CCNA-Voice though about an hour ago. 🙂 CCENT/CCNA, CCNP R&S, CCNA-Wireless and now CCNA-Voice under my belt. Going for CCNP-Voice next.
 
Ghiedo27 said:
I strongly recommend before you start with a date in mind that you step back and get a solid study book to work through. Both the Todd Lammle's guide and the Cisco Press book are recommended. I personally used the Cisco Press book which comes with an excellent set of practice questions.

To answer your question about IPv6 in particular, let me point you to the things you're going to want to learn about. Between Wikipedia, Cisco's whitepapers, and some googlefu you should be able getting the info you need.

IPv6 address format, EUI-64, reserved prefixes (like FF00::/8), zero compression, differences between IPv6 and IPv4 headers, network discovery protocol, static/dynamic address assignment, stateful and stateless DHCPv6 servers, general IPv6 commands (enabling it on a router and specific interfaces), IPv6 routing protocols (names and basic configuration), dual stack, tunneling, manually configured tunnels, dynamic 6to4, ISATAP, Teredo tunneling, and NAT-PT.
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Thanks for the warning and the tips. I'm actually on really good standing with the CCNA material (I took a 4 part prep class at a local college night classes) The problem is that the instructor skipped IPv6 because he didn't think it was necessary. All practice tests and exam outlines tend to disagree.

Thanks for all your input guys.
 
All the course syllabus defines on IPv6 for CCNA is to describe them.

Describe the technological requirements for running IPv6 in conjunction with IPv4 (including: protocols, dual stack, tunneling, etc).

Describe IPv6 addresses
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It's going to be one or two questions at best
 
SS Trooper said:
I will be taking my CCNA within a month and I have little to no knowledge on IPv6. Can anyone post some information or links on IPv6. I have a critical need for IPv6/Ipv4 technologies such as dual stack.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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This is kind of a weird request. Do you really not have this book, which should cover everything on the CCNA exam, including the IPv6 you need to know? If not, I strongly suggest you get it and start studying.

EDIT: OK, I see you took a class. I still recommend going through the books, they provide practice questions and such.
 
SS Trooper said:
Thanks for the warning and the tips. I'm actually on really good standing with the CCNA material (I took a 4 part prep class at a local college night classes) The problem is that the instructor skipped IPv6 because he didn't think it was necessary. All practice tests and exam outlines tend to disagree.

Thanks for all your input guys.
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Seriously?
 
So, I took my CCNA(compilation exam) yesterday and scored a 683 :'(

Of 48 MC questions, I had to completely guess on 10.

All and all, the course I attended and that my job payed for did not prepare me enough. Needless to say I will be reviewing the materials posted above and retrying.

Things that tripped me up specifically:
IPv6 multicast address for RIP routing
IPSEC
Protocols that use UDP and TCP (I should've known this)
Show commands for identifying VLAN, STP, VTP, and mac addressing on a switched lan (the commands I wanted to use were all disabled 😱 )
EIGRP troubleshooting (I fixed the AS number, ensured links were good and still no talking)
Time constraint (90 minutes flys by when you are stuck)

Things that were on there that I was ready for:
ACL's
Frame-Relay
Subnetting
Security measures
OSPF RB allocation

Obviously thats not everything, but all I can specifically remember atm.
 
Failing a cert exam is pretty common, so don't get too beat up about it. Just take away from it that your preparation needs to be revised.

Specifically, I recommend starting a text document that uses Cisco's exam topics as a rough outline. As you work through a solid study book (seriously, get a study book!) fill out your own guide to the test. Cover the important facts about each bullet. For example, the study guide I made for the ICND2 was about 15 pages long. I covered commands, the basic way each tech worked, along with some fundamental bullets about how things worked together.

For the things that didn't fall directly under an exam topic I created a general facts page. For the tertiary stuff (like setting up a device for telnet/ssh) I created a tasks page with checklists. I made a page to jot down things I might want to make a page about. Seriously. I have a Cisco Projects folder where I add new study material into my CCNA notes to layer onto what I've done before. It's all in the same place and easy to cross reference.

It may sound like overkill, but taking an active role in learning this stuff is the way to go.
 
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