COMPUTER TECH. SKILLS
Linux Networking
Nº
3308
DATE: CALL
PRICE NIS: 2610 + VAT
DURATION: 3 Days
DATE: CALL
PRICE NIS: 2610 + VAT
DURATION: 3 Days
Course Overview:
Starting from networking fundamentals and proceeding to explain network configuration, name service, network address translation and other important Linux network features, this hands-on course provides the Linux programmer and system administrator with the tools needed when providing networking under Linux.
Who should attend?
Linux programmers and system administrators who wish to deepen their knowledge in all aspects of networking under Linux.
Prerequisities:
Introduction to Linux or equivalent.
Course Outline:
1. Introduction
6. TCP/IP Firewall
- Networking fundamentals
- TCP/IP networks
- Linux networking
- Networking interfaces
- IP addresses
- Address resolution
- IP routing
- The Internet control message protocol (ICMP)
- Resolving host names
- Kernel configuration
- Linux network devices
- Ethernet installation
- PLIP driver
- PPP and SLIP drivers
- Mounting the /proc file system
- Installing the binaries
- Setting the hostname
- Assigning IP addresses
- Creating subnets
- Writing hosts and networks files
- Interface configuration for IP
- Ifconfig
- The netstat command
- Checking the ARP tables
- The resolver library
- How DNS works
- Running named
6. TCP/IP Firewall
- What is a firewall?
- What is IP filtering?
- Linux and firewalling
- IP firewall chains (2.2 Kernels)
- Netfilter and IP tables (2.4 Kernels)
- Testing a firewall configuration
7. IP Masquerade and Network Address Translation (NAT)
9. The Network Information System (NIS)
10. The Network File System (NFS)
11. Electronic Mail
12. Samba
13. Summary
- Side effects and fringe benefits
- Configuring the kernel for IP masquerade
- Configuring IP masquerade
- Handling name server lookups
- More about network address translation (NAT)
- The inetd super server
- The tcpd access control facility
- The services and protocols files
- Remote procedure call (RPC)
- Remote login and execution
9. The Network Information System (NIS)
- NIS and NIS+
- Running an NIS server
- NIS server security
- Setting up an NIS client
- Choosing the right maps
- Using the passwd and group maps
- Using NIS with shadow support
10. The Network File System (NFS)
- Preparing NFS
- Mounting an NFS volume
- NFS daemons
- Exports file
- Kernel-based NFSv2 server support
- Kernel-based NFSv3 server support
11. Electronic Mail
- What is a mail message?
- How is mail delivered?
- Email addresses
- How does mail routing work?
- PINE
- Sendmail
12. Samba
- History of Samba
- Role of Samba in a networking environment
- Samba utilities
- Setting up and managing Samba shares
13. Summary
