Course 10693: IPv6 Programming Training Class - TONEX.com

IPv6 Programming Training Class covers  basics of IPv4 socket programming , IPv6 socket programming, socket API  and more.

Overview of IPv6

• IPv4 vs. IPv6
• IPv6 Addressing
• Unicast Addresses
• Anycast Addresses
• Multicast Addresses
• 64-bit MAC Address Assignment
• Loopback and Unspecified Addresses
• IPv6 Header Information
• New Header Format
• IPv6 Extension Headers
• DNS infrastructure
• IPv6 Tunneling
• IPSec Tunneling

Basic Socket Programming

• What is a socket?
• Types of Internet Sockets
• Low level Nonsense and Network Theory
• IP Addresses and structs
• IP Addresses, versions 4 and 6
• Byte Order
• structs
• IPv4 Socket Programming
• IPv6 Socket Programming
• Changes socket API for IPv6 Support
• Typical IPv6 Code sequence

IPv6 Socket Programming

• IPv4 Socket API
• IPv6 Socket API
• Changes to existing API
• Porting applications to IPv6
• Socket address structures
• Socket functions
• Address conversion functions
• Resolving names
• Multicasting
• New application design guidelines
• Real examples of porting process
• Porting Applications to Support IPv6
• Tips in IPv6 Programming
• A Practical Example
• IPv6 APIs
• Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6
• Advanced Sockets API for IPv6
• IPv4-Mapped Address API
• Possible Abuse Against IPv6 Transition Technologies
• An Extension of format for IPv6 Scoped Addresses
• ProtocolIndependenceUsing the Sockets API

Migration from IPv4 to IPv6

• System Calls or Bust
• getaddrinfo(): Prepare to launch!
• socket(): Get the File Descriptor!
• bind(): What port am I on?
• connect(): Hey, you!
• listen(): Will somebody please call me?
• accept(): "Thank you for calling port 3490."
• send() and recv(): Talk to me, baby!
• sendto() and recvfrom(): Talk to me, DGRAM-style
• close() and shutdown(): Get outta my face!
• getpeername(): Who are you?
• gethostname(): Who am I?
• Porting IPv4 applications to IPv6
• using the correct structures
• INADDR_ANY and INADDR_LOOPBACK
• address and protocol family constants
• IPv6 functions for older IPv4 ones where necessary
• flexible functions that work in both IPv4 and IPv6 environments
• Data structures
• sockaddr_in and in_addr
• in6_addr to store the 128-bit network address
• sockaddr_in6
• To port this code to IPv6
• AF_INET6
• PF_INET6

Client-Server Background

• A Simple Stream Server
• A Simple Stream Client
• Datagram Sockets
• Blocking
• select(): Synchronous I/O Multiplexing
• Handling Partial send()s
• Serialization: How to Pack Data
• Son of Data Encapsulation
• Broadcast Packets: Hello, World!

Cross-Platform IPv6 Socket Programming

• Linux and Mac
• Windows
• Socket
• Storing Addresses
• Resolving Addresses
• Historic Name and Address Lookup
• Modern Address Lookup
• AI_ADDRCONFIG
• AI_CANONNAME
• AI_V4MAPPED
• AI_ALL
• IPv6 format.
• AI_IDN
• AI_CANONIDN
• Modern Host Name Lookup
• Printing and Scanning Addresses
• Interface Checklist
• Obsolete Interface
• Protocol Independent Interface
• Example Client Code
• Example Server Code

 changed Socket Interface

• New protocol family name: PF_INET6
• Address data structures
• Net address family name: AF_INET6
• in6_addr structure
• sockaddr_in6 structure
• Name-to-address translation functions
• inet_pton, inet_ntop
• Address conversion functions
• getnameinfo
• getaddrinfo
• Sockets
• Socket Programming
• Port Numbers
• Sockets
• Socket=IP address + port number
• Socket Basics
• How do sockets work?
• Socket Functions
• Typical flow of events for a connection-oriented socket
• Socket APIs
• Socket characteristics
• Sockets characteristics

IPv6 Programming APIs and examples

• Porting applications in IPv6
• C
• C++
• Java
• Perl
• PHP