Faculty Syllabus

TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1, Second Edition

Author: Kevin R. Fall & W. Richard Stevens

ISBN-13: 978-0-321-33631-6

ISBN-10:        0-321-33631-3

Edition/Copyright: 2nd

Published Date: 2012

Networks

IP Address Architectures: IPv4 and IPv6

Link Layer & ARP

DHCP

NAT and ICMP

UDP and DNS

TCP Management: Time-out and Data Flow

TCP Congestion Control

Security

1. Explain layer functions, TCP/IP protocols, ports, sockets, and data encapsulation within the OSI and TCP/IP models
2. Configure subnetting and supernetting of IP networks
3. Explain the role of the Data Link Layer protocols
4. Explain the process of packet fragmentation and reassembly
5. Explain the Internet Control Message protocol
6. Use Wireshark to recognize ICMP request and reply packets
7. Explain the key features and functions of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
8. Use Wireshark to recognize TCP three way handshake packets
9. Explain the capabilities, message types, and request/reply architectures for basic TCP/IP services including FTP, Telnet, SMTP, and HTTP
10. Use Wireshark to recognize the DHCP protocol four packet process
11. Explain the types of services DNS provides, roles a DNS server provides, and DNS database structure
12. Describe DNS queries, name resolution, zone data transfers and reverse DNS query
13. Describe the anatomy of an IP attack including the reconnaissance and discovery processes
14. Describe how basic routing works including the use of routing protocols

Compare IPv4 features to IPv6 including auto configuration, security, quality of service