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3 days
All levels
Those wishing to find out more about how their LAN works.
Intro to Data comms & networking.
3 days
LANS, What is Ethernet?, history, standards, the OSI reference model, how Ethernet works, CSMA/CD. Ethernet Cabling UTP, cat 3,4,5, Cat 5e, Cat 6, Cat 7, fibre optic cable, MMF, SMF.
Hands on Making a cable.
Distance limitations, hubs and repeaters, 5-4-3-2-1 rule, 10BaseT, 10BaseF, 100BaseTX, 100BaseFX, 1000BaseSX, 1000BaseT, 10gbe.
Hands on Working with hubs.
Overview, NICS, device drivers, MAC addresses, broadcasts, multicasts, frame formats, Ether II, 802.3, 802.2, SNAP, compatibility, Ethernet type numbers, Ethernet multicast addresses, Ethernet vendor codes.
Hands on Installing Ethernet components, analysing MAC headers.
Hands on Analysing ARP packets.
Full/half duplex, auto negotiation, flow control methods, 802.3ad, 802.3af, 802.3ah.
Hands on Configuration of full/half duplex.
Encoding, Carrier extension, packet bursting, jumbo frames.
802.1P, 802.1Q, TOS, WRR, QOS, VLANs.
Hands on 802.1p testing
Broadcast domains, Collision domains, What are bridges, transparent bridging, What are switches? STP, VLANS, What are routers? Layer 3 switches, Connecting Ethernet to the WAN.
Hands on STP, Analysing Ethernet frames in a routed architecture.
Utilisation, performance, TDR and other testers, bottlenecks, statistics, RMON.
Hands on Monitoring performance, troubleshooting tools.
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