Essential IP addressing and subnetting

Description

A course focusing purely on IP addressing and subnetting. The course assumes that delegates already have some knowledge of IP addressing. In particular delegates will be able to calculate subnet numbers in seconds without using binary.

What will you learn

IP addressing and subnetting course details

Anyone working with TCP/IP.

TCP/IP Foundation for engineers

2 days

What is an IP address? What is a subnet?
Classless IP addressing. The rules of IP
addressing. Ways IP addresses are used: On
hosts, in packets, in routing tables.
Hands on Byte
boundary subnetting.

Interfaces, Static vs. dynamic configuration.
DHCP: Scopes, leases, relays, using multiple
DHCP servers. Multihoming.

Default subnet masks, subnet notations. How to
subnet without binary. VLSMs.
Hands on Bit
boundary subnetting.

Routing tables, IP address spoofing, host specific
routing, subnets in routing tables, supernets in
routing tables. CIDR. Impact of choice of routing
protocol.
Hands on IP addressing plans.

IAB, IANA, RIRs, RIPE, LIRs and ISPs. PI vs. PA
addressing.
Hands on Querying the RIPE
database.

NAT, NAPT, NAT terms, private addresses, NAT
operation, NAT architecture, NAT and security,
why use NAT? NAT-ALG, Types of NAT, RSIP.

Unicasts, broadcasts, multicasts, anycasts.
Directed broadcasts. Allowing broadcasts through
routers.