TCP/IP Comprehensive Introduction

Course details

TCP/IP is the communications protocol suite on which the Internet and most commercial networks operate. In this course, you gain a comprehensive technical introduction to TCP/IP. Extensive hands-on exercises provide the practical experience you need to configure a host, employ TCP/IP tools, use application services and access TCP/IP-based internetworks.

Course Objectives:

• Configure hosts and access internetworks using TCP/IP protocols
• Identify the role of each TCP/IP component
• Use all major TCP/IP application services including: FTP, TELNET, HTTP and NFS
• Avoid common internetworking problems
• Troubleshoot TCP/IP networks using protocol analysis techniques
• Employ popular Internet/intranet tools: FTP, Web browsers, WWW and others

Course Outlines:

Exercises throughout this course provide practical experience with TCP/IP internet- working issues and services, including:

• Deploying protocol analysis techniques for Internet protocols: IP, ARP, TCP, UDP and HTTP
• Solving duplicate IP address problems
• Troubleshooting IP configuration problems
• Building internets with IP routers: configuration and testing
• Troubleshooting TCP/IP networks with ICMP and ping
• Exploiting FTP and TELNET
• Performing detailed protocol analysis of FTP sessions
• Decoding HTTP traffic