Solaris Network Administration — A 5-Day Course

 Open Public Course Closed In-House Course

Synopsis

This five-day course is designed to cover Solaris network administration in depth and is an extension to our Solaris 10 System Administration (Part 1) and Solaris 10 Systems Administration (Part 2) courses. It covers many networking topics, including the TCP/IP model; network topologies, media, interfaces and utilities; ARP and RARP; configuring IP; IPMP (Multipathing); routing; IPV6 (IP version 6); DNS (Domain Name System); DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol); NTP (Network Time Protocol) and IP Filter Firewall. Additional topics are also covered, including Link Aggregations with dladm, Wireless Network configuratiom, Open Source network utilities, and ISCSI configuration, with full hands-on experience at all stages.

This course is comparable with the Sun SA-300-S10 course and leads to the Solaris Certified Network Administrator CX-310-302 exam.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of Solaris administration up to a level taught in our Solaris 10 System Administration Part 1, Solaris 10 Administration Part 2 and Solaris 10 Advanced Administration courses is important.

Follow-up

This course is part of a program which can lead you to Solaris Certification for the Solaris Network Administrator.

Publicly scheduled dates, locations, and prices

Contents

Network and SMF review

A quick review of basic network configuration, plus Solaris 10 SMF services for controlling network daemons and on-demand services, TCP wrappers, etc.

The TCP/IP Model

• The fundamentals of the TCP/IP network model
• Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) model layers
• peer-to-peer communication and related protocols
• Understand TCP/IP protocols

LAN Components and structures

• Identify the different types of network topology
• Describe network media and devices

Ethernet Interfaces

• Ethernet concepts
• Ethernet frames
• Using network utilities, using Open Source network utilities

ARP and RARP

• Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) functions and implementation
• Reverse ARP (RARP)

IP Configuration in Solaris

• The Internet layer protocols
• IP datagrams, address types, subnetting and variable length subnet masks (VLSMs), interface configuration files, creating logical inetrfaces
• Setting up wireless networking
• iSCSI targets and administration

IPMP - IP Network Multipathing, and Link Aggregations

• Configure and manage IP multipathing
• Configure and manage Link Aggregations using dladm

Configuring Routing

• Routing fundamentals
• The routing table, and table population
• Routing protocols
• Static and dynamic route configuration
• Classless inter-domain routing (CIDR)
• Configure routing for system startup
• Troubleshoot routing

IPv6

• IPv6 overview
• Addressing and address types (Unicast, multicast, etc)
• Enabling and managing IPV6 in Solaris
• 6to4 routing
• IPV6 multipathing

The Transport Layer

• Transport layer basics
• User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
• Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
• TCP Flow Control

DNS Server Configuration

• DNS fundamentals
• Setting up, managing and troubleshooting a DNS server

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol - DHCP

• DHCP basics
• Setting up a DHCP server
• Configure and manage DHCP clients

Network Time Protocol - NTP

• Configuring and manage an NTP server and client

Solaris IP Filter Firewall

• How to use the IPfilter Open Source firewall facility now built-in to Solaris 10

Note:- Several additional topics are covered on this course compared to Sun's, such as Link Aggregations with dladm, Wireless network configuration, Open Source network utilities and iSCSI configuration.