IP demystified

Description

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

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.