Internetworking with TCP/IP

Install, configure, and subnet enterprise networks in the industry's leading TCP/IP course.

Your critical applications require enterprise-wide, transparent access to multivendor networks. Building internetwork connectivity is only part of the solution. Network interoperability is essential.

TCP/IP offers companies interoperability and interconnectivity across dispersed multiplatform networks. TCP/IP's proven performance, explosive growth, and vendor/user support provide a cost-effective internetworking solution.

In this course, examine real-world internetworking applications using Linux and Windows NT platforms on a TCP/IP network. Install and configure TCP/IP, troubleshoot connections among platforms, and monitor live IP data transfer through the multiplatform classroom network.

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This course can be delivered by the methods below:
Classroom Learning $1795 USD
Self-Paced e-Learning See Below - $1595 USD
Virtual Classroom e-Learning $1195 USD

You Learn...

Run, test, and decode TCP/IP
Identify the correct IP address class and master subnetting
Use DHCP and DNS to automate address allocation and resolution
Install and configure TCP/IP on the multiprotocol classroom network
Overcome interoperability problems and understand multiple protocol integration
Understand the TCP/IP client/server relationship
Isolate, decode, and analyze RIP, ARP, TCP, and IP headers
Develop strategies for implementing IPv6 and IP multicast
Understand IP addressing and routing
Know the fundamental differences between RIP and OSPF routing protocols

Who Would Benefit

This course is for network managers, engineers, and technicians responsible for designing, installing, configuring, and maintaining TCP/IP networks. It is also for software engineers who need to understand TCP/IP protocol structures and functions.

Also appropriate for: communications specialists/managers, consultants, design engineers (hardware & software), IT managers, marketing, network designers, network engineers, network operations center (NOC) staff, routing specialists, systems administrators, technical sales engineers, telecom managers, webmasters.

 

Course Outline

Please choose below for specific Outline information.

Classroom and Virtual Classroom e-Learning Outline
Self Paced e-Learning Details

Classroom and Virtual Classroom e-Learning Outline

1. IP Networking: The Adventure Begins

End stations and internetworking devices
Data representation
Review of numbering systems
Conversion from binary or hex to decimal
Conversion from decimal to binary or hex
Converting 1500 to binary
Converting 1500 to hex
Converting from hex to and from binary
Counting
Which base?

2. The Working Group Process

ARPANET requirement documents
Collaborative network requirements
Peer-to-peer protocols
Documentation and RFCs
RFC categories

3. Local Signaling

Ethernet addressing
Unicast
Multicast
Broadcast
The Ethernet header
Protocol type
Size limits

4. IP Addressing and Subnetting

A logical address
IP address structure
Dotted decimal notation
Reserved addresses
Masking
Comparing addresses
Prefix notation
Address assignment
One flat network
Multiple subnetworks
Determining the mask
First subnet
Second subnet
Third subnet
Current picture
A future fourth subnet
Private addressing
NAT
Classful addressing
IP address blocks

5. Auto Configuration

IP address assignment
IP auto configuration
DHCP characteristics
DHCP message format
DHCP process
DHCP in a routed network

6. Address Resolution Protocol

Address mapping
ARP cache
ARP restrictions
ARP message fields
Hardware and protocol types
Hardware and protocol address lengths
Operation
Addresses
Exception
LAN fill
How else can ARP help?

7. DNS: Names Instead of Numbers

What does DNS do?
A distributed service
The DNS tree
TLDs
New TLDs
Country domains
Name server
Primary and secondary servers
DNS database
DNS cache feature
Resource records
Dynamic DNS
DHCP lease expiration
Related RFCs

8. Internet Protocol

TCP/IP protocols
Self-healing networking
IP header
Protocol numbers

9. Diagnostics and Error Reports via ICMP

TCP/IP protocols
ICMP basics
ICMP message destinations
ICMP messages
ICMP echo request and response
Destination unreachable
Redirecting traffic with an ICMP message
Router advertisement message
Router solicitation message
Time exceeded message
ICMP samples

10. Simple Sessions with User Datagram Protocol

TCP/IP protocols
Host-to-host layer categories
Connectionless protocol
Connection-oriented protocol
Low overhead vs. reliability
UDP header
Port basics
UDP ports and sockets
Applications.
UDP sample data exchanges
Well-known port numbers
Registered port numbers

11. Robust Sessions with TCP

TCP/IP protocols
The TCP choice
Reliable transport services
TCP functions and facilities
TCP headers
Maximum segment and window size
TCP three-step handshake
Congestion and TCP
Four-step session shutdown
TCP sample session

12. IP Routing

TCP/IP protocol
Routing function
The IP routing algorithm
The routing table
Automatic table maintenance
Exterior or interior protocol
Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
Routing information basics
Route loops
OSPF vs. RIP 1 vs. RIP 2
Layer 3 switching

13. Common Applications

TCP/IP protocols
The uses of Telnet
Option negotiations
Protocol options
FTP
Multiple sessions
FTP commands
Response codes
E-mail
SMTP commands
SMTP response codes
World Wide Web
URL
HTTP requests and responses
TFTP characteristics
Transfer process
Client and server ports
Operation codes
Read request/write request layout
Operation code 3: Data
Operation code 4: ACK
Error handling
SNMP basics
SNMP model
SNMP agent
Structure of management information
Management Information Base (MIB)
Private MIBs
Remote network monitoring

14. Leading Edge

IPv4 and IPv6
IPv6 addressing
IPv6 address formats
IPv4 to IPv6 transition
About Internet2
VOIP
Uses
Talk to operator
Communication characteristics
VRRP
The future of networks

Hands-On Course Labs

Hands-On Lab 1: IP Configuration

Configure the student workstation with the correct IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, and DNS server address.

Hands-On Lab 2: IP Connectivity

Test the configuration in the classroom network by using PING.

Hands-On Lab 3: Ethernet Header

View the contents of an Ethernet frame captured live in the classroom network using a protocol analyzer.

Hands-On Lab 4: Subnetting

Practice subnetting principles learned in the classroom.

Hands-On Lab 5: DHCP Process

Modify the workstation settings to receive an address from the DHCP server.

Hands-On Lab 6: ARP Header

View the contents of an ARP datagram and identify the components.

Hands-On Lab 7: ARP Cache

Discover the contents of the workstation ARP cache.

Hands-On Lab 8: IP Header

Inspect the format of an IP datagram captured in the classroom network.

Hands-On Lab 9: ICMP Analysis

Learn to determine the source of a problem by viewing an ICMP variation report message.

Hands-On Lab 10: UDP Header

Validate classroom instruction by observing the contents of a UDP header.

Hands-On Lab 11: TCP Header

Review the components of a TCP header using a TCP segment captured in the classroom.

Hands-On Lab 12: Routing Analysis

Develop a deeper understanding of the routing process by analyzing the contents of the classroom network routing tables.

Hands-On Lab 13: Application Analysis

With the assistance of your instructor, gather and analyze application data flows using live data from your classroom network.

Self-Paced e-Learning Details

Title 1 - TCP/IP, An Introduction - 282008

How does an IP network work? What is an Ethernet Header? What is an RFC? Who is the IETF? The answers to these questions and many others, can be found in this introductory title on TCP/IP. Get a jump-start on networking terms and concepts. Then, take an in-depth look at the "physical" aspects of a TCP/IP address when you learn about Unicast, Multicast, and Ethernet and ARP headers and their structures.

Title 2 - IP Addressing, Subnetting and Routing - 282009

Master the nuts and bolts of IP--addressing, subnetting and routing. This title is packed with key concepts that will help you configure and deploy a TCP/IP-based network. You will learn how to subnet, auto-configure your network using DHCP or BootP, how to set up and use DNS, understand address resolution and use routing functions and protocols.

Title 3 - TCP/IP, The Protocols - 282010

Get an in-depth understanding of how TCP/IP functions by dissecting UDP, TCP and ICMP. Decode an IP Header, understand ICMP messages, and compare the features of UDP and TCP.

Title 4 - TCP/IP, The Applications - 282011

The applications of TCP/IP are the bedrock of Internet communication, usage and function. Understand how HTTP, Telnet, FTP, SNMP, and SMTP work. Gain the necessary knowledge to integrate the applications, do to proactive maintenance and to troubleshoot problems quick and effectively. Grasp the basics of the latest applications of TCP/IP, such as VOIP, mobile IP and IPv6.

Package Titles 1-4 - 282057

Internetworking with TCP/IP and Troubleshooting TCP/IP Networks Combo - 282013

 

Suggested Prerequisites

Students need a basic understanding of networking and data communications concepts. Our Understanding Networking Fundamentals course is highly recommended.

Understanding Networking Fundamentals

 

Suggested Follow-ons

Students followed up Internetworking with TCP/IP by attending these popular classes:

Troubleshooting TCP/IP Networks
ICND (Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices)

 

Self-Paced e-Learning

Title 01: TCP/IP, An Introduction (282008) - $395 USD
Title 02: IP Addressing, Subnetting and Routing (282009) - $495 USD
Title 03: TCP/IP: The Protocols (282010) - $395 USD
Title 04: TCP/IP: The Applications (282011) - $395 USD
Internetworking and Troubleshooting TCP/IP Package (282013) - $1595 USD
Package Titles 1-4 (282057) - $1095 USD

 

Certifications

CCNAŽ (CiscoŽ Certified Network Associate)
CCDAŽ (CiscoŽ Certified Design Associate)
CompTIA Network + Certification - Standard Track