By Ifeoma Asika, Correspondent Campuses

AFRINIC has announced the launch of the Mastering Neighbourhood Discovery Protocol(Mastering NDP) e-course.

Through this course, learners will be able to engage in learning how five of ICPMv6 messages make up the Neighbour Discovery Protocol for IPv6 operations, according to a statement by Communications Team Lead and member of AFRINIC’s Capacity Building Team, Ashil Oogarah.

By the end of the course, learners should be able to:

• Identify and explain the content of the five ICMPv6 messages used by NDP

• Outline and explain NDP operations for IPv6

• Examine and deconstruct NDP packet captures

• Configure, verify and debug SLAAC as a provisioning mechanism for an IPv6

network

• List potential NDP security treats and available countermeasures

• Deploy Secure NDP(SeNDP) and RA-Guard to protect NDP against malicious

Attacks.

What is more? This course is available free of charge to interested parties and now open for registration at: http://bit.ly/Elearning-Neighbor-Discovery-Protocol