Networking Technologies Series: TCP/IP Internetwork Management

Audience

Network managers network administrators software developers and technical support personnel who want to learn about and use TCP/IP.

Objective

• Examine the services and protocols available in the Internet.


• Examine the properties of the LAN and WAN protocols that enable them to work with TCP/IP.


• Examine the components of Domain Name Service and the features of BOOTP and the Network Time Protocol.


• Examine the features of NFS and NIS.


• Examine the concepts of network management network topologies SNMP and MIB.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Internet

• Identify the features of an e-mail application.
• Identify the steps in the transmission of an e-mail.
• Identify the benefits of relaying mail.
• Sequence the command and responses between the sender and the receiver in Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).
• Identify the ways by which MIME messages are sent by using ESMTP.
• Identify the services provided by Post Office Protocol (POP).
• Identify the benefits provided by Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP).
• Identify the services provided by Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP).
• Identify the features of Gopher.
• Identify the features of the WWW.
• Sequence the components of an URL.
• Identify the features of HTML documents.

Unit 2: TCP/IP and Networks

• Identify the layers and services in a LAN that separates the IP layer from the Ethernet layer.
• Identify the properties of NetBIOS that enables it to operate with TCP/IP.
• Identify the protocols used by XNS which enables it to operate with TCP/IP.
• Identify the properties of IPX which enables it to operate with IP.
• Identify the features that enables ARCnet to operate with IP.
• Identify the properties of FDDI that enables it to operate with TCP/IP.
• Identify the method by which X.25 operates with IP.
• Identify the method by which ISDN operates with IP.
• Identify the method by which SMDS operates with IP.
• Identify the properties of ATM which enable it to operate with TCP/IP.
• Identify the layers of the Windows 95 architecture that enables it to work with TCP/IP.
• Match the TCP/IP services with their descriptions.

Unit 3: Domain Name Service

• Match the Internet domains with their descriptions.
• Identify the functions of a name server.
• Match the fields of a resource record with their descriptions.
• Identify the features of IN-ADDR-ARPA format.
• Match the fields of a DNS message with the information contained in them.
• Identify the different methods by which the name resolver resolves a name.
• Identify the features of the BOOTP protocol.
• Match the fields of the BOOTP message format with their descriptions.
• Match the fields of the Network Time Protocol(NTP) with their definitions.

Unit 4: NFS and NIS

• Identify the features of Network File System(NFS).
• Identify the features of Remote Procedure Call (RPC).
• Identify the function of External Data Representation (XDR).
• Identify the features of the Network Files System Protocol (NFSP).
• Match the mount protocol procedures with their descriptions.
• Identify the daemon processes involved in file locking.
• Identify the features of Remote Execution Service(REX).
• Identify the functions of rusers and spray.
• Identify the features of Network Information System (NIS).

Unit 5: Managing TCP/IP

• Match the parts of network management with their descriptions.
• Identify the features of the SNMP network management standard.
• Identify the network expansion component to be used in a given topology.
• Identify the features of SNMP.
• Match the Management Information Base (MIB) fields with their descriptions.
• Match the SNMP commands with their descriptions.
• Identify the features of SNMP v1.

Duration

8

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

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