IP demystified training course description
A concise overview course covering TCP/IP with particular emphasis on the addressing and security issues of TCP/IP networks.
What will you learn
Describe TCP/IP.
List the rules of IP addressing.
Recognise the impact of the addressing rules on adds/moves and changes.
Recognise the use of subnet masks.
Explain how firewalls work.
Recognise the role of DNS.
IP demystified training course details
Who will benefit:
Anyone, although the course is particularly aimed at non-technical personnel needing some knowledge of TCP/IP.
Prerequisites:
Network fundamentals
Duration
1 day
IP demystified training course contents
What is TCP/IP?
What is IP? What is TCP? What is TCP/IP?
Internetworking, protocols, services. The Internet,
RFCs, comparison with OSI 7 layer model.
Basic configuration
IP addresses, subnet masks, default gateways,
DHCP, ping.
Addressing
IP address format, rules of IP addressing, where to
get IP addresses, private addresses, subnet
masks, How subnet masks are used to determine
network numbers. Ranges of addresses.
NAT
Private versus public IP addresses, NAT, NAPT.
IPv6
What is IPv6, IPv6 usage, Why IPv6, 128bit IPv6
addresses, IPv6 migration, dual stack, tunnelling.
Routing
What is a router? how routers join networks,
benefits and disadvantages of routers, default
gateways, routing tables, routing protocols.
Traceroute.
Firewalls
What is a firewall, firewall architectures, filtering,
DMZ, Proxy servers, stateful packet inspection.
DNS
How hostnames are converted to IP addresses.