The TCP/IP Fundamentals Workshop provides students with a comprehensive understanding of TCP/IP and the Internet Protocol Suite. This course discusses issues relating to hardware and software configuration, network terminology, network performance, problem determination and resolution, application programming, network management and security. It provides a "big picture" overview of TCP/IP and many of the telecommunications and data communications architectures and protocols it works with. It provides a hands-on experience, which lets students configure TCP/IP and solve real TCP/IP internetworking problems while creating an intranetwork using hubs, bridges, and routers.

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• TCP/IP Internetworks

  Details
  	LANs, MANs, WANs
  	OSI and The IP Suite - TCP/IP

• TCP/IP & The Internet

  Details
  	TCP/IP History
  	Internet Standard & Organizations

• TCP/IP Names, Addresses, & Subnets
• TCP/IP Repeaters, Switches, Bridges, Routers & Gateways
• TCP/IP Network Interface Layer

  Details
  	Ethernet, Token Ring, Physical Links
  	Serial Line Internet Protocol
  	Point-to-Point Protocol
  	Packet Technologies
  	X.25, Integrated Services Digital
  	Network (IDSN)
  	Frame Relay Synchronous
  	Transfer Mode (ATM)

• TCP/IP Internet Layer

  Details
  	IPv4, Fragmentation, Address Resolution Protocols
  	Internet Group Management Protocol
  	Internet Control Message Protocol
  	Ping & ICMP Echo Message, Traceroute
  	IP Next Generation IPng, IP Version 6

• TCP/IP Routing Protocols

  Details
  	Internet Routing, Distance Vector vs. Link State
  	Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
  	Hello Protocol
  	Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
  	Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP)
  	Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
  	Autonomous Systems

• TCP/IP Transport Layer - TCP & UDP

  Details
  	Transport Addressing Ports
  	Well-known Port Numbers
  	Sockets
  	User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
  	Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

• TCP/IP Application Services Layer
• NFS & NIS

  Details
  	Network File System (NFS)
  	Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
  	Network Information Service (NIS)

• Electric Mail & News

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  	Internetwork E-Mail
  	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
  	Multipurpose Internet Mail
  	Extensions (MIME)
  	Electronic News

• Gopher & World Wide Web

  Details
  	Hypertext
  	Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
  	Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
  	Hypertext Transfer Protocol

• Line Print Services
• BOOTP, DHCP, NTP & DNS

  Details
  	BOOTP - 2 phases
  	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
  	Domain Name Service (DNS)
  	DNS Structure

• Network Management & Security

  Details
  	SNMP Architecture
  	Remote Monitoring (RMON)
  	SNMPv2
  	Network Management Platforms
  	Tools
  	Internetwork Security
  	Firewalls
  	Packet Filter Table
  	Application and Firewall Gateways
  	Kerberos

• Configuration, Planning & Troubleshooting

  Details
  	Management Issues & Responsibilities
  	Choosing TCP/IP Products
  	Technical Decisions
  	Performance Considerations
  	Tuning a Network
  	Configuration
  	Debugging & Management Tools
  	TCP/IP Programming
  	The Socket Programming Interface
  	Unix Forks
  	WINdows SOCKets (WINSOCK)
  	X Protocol
  	Client/Server Architecture
  	Connectionless UDP Socket
  	Example
  	Connection TCP Socket Example
  	Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
  	TCP/IP & IBM Networks

Who Should Attend TCP/IP users, programmers, network and system administrators, engineers and managers who need a thorough understanding of TCP/IP. Project managers and project leaders involved in the design and implementation of TCP/IP networks, client/server applications or distributed processing applications who need to understand the fundamentals of TCP/IP networks. Client/server and distributed processing programmers who need to understand the use of TCP/IP in their applications.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of computers.
Course Length: 3 days	Download course description (printable version)