Hurricane Electric (one of the big tier-3 internet transit providers) offers free IPv6 "certifications." I put it in quotes because I don't think it would really help on a resume, but the program is a great way to learn IPv6 by doing. To make it all the way through you need to set up IPv6 somehow, either using an allocation from your ISP…
Hurricane Electric (one of the big tier-3 internet transit providers) offers free IPv6 "certifications." I put it in quotes because I don't think it would really help on a resume, but the program is a great way to learn IPv6 by doing. To make it all the way through you need to set up IPv6 somehow, either using an allocation from your ISP or one of their IPv6 tunnels, and set up DNS, a web server, and a mail server. It's a great little home lab activity.
Ben - Thanks for that info! It's apparent to me that most of us techies need to move on from our comfortable familiarity with IPv4 and wholeheartedly embrace the more complex, but far more capable, IPv6. I'll try to get this into a near future issue of Zero Retries.
Hurricane Electric (one of the big tier-3 internet transit providers) offers free IPv6 "certifications." I put it in quotes because I don't think it would really help on a resume, but the program is a great way to learn IPv6 by doing. To make it all the way through you need to set up IPv6 somehow, either using an allocation from your ISP or one of their IPv6 tunnels, and set up DNS, a web server, and a mail server. It's a great little home lab activity.
Ben - Thanks for that info! It's apparent to me that most of us techies need to move on from our comfortable familiarity with IPv4 and wholeheartedly embrace the more complex, but far more capable, IPv6. I'll try to get this into a near future issue of Zero Retries.