Introduction to TCP/IP

This 1-day course provides those that are new to technology with a platform to assess and to begin installing TCP/IP based systems.

Organisations from the largest enterprises to the smallest SME environment are discovering that in order to link their systems across the Internet, or their own WAN (Wide Area Networks), they require a truly heterogeneous protocol suite capable of providing a common denominator in both the operating system and software development.

The huge mass of deployed TCP/IP systems, together with the inescapable impact of the Internet has made TCP/IP that protocol. This course provides a technical introduction to TCP/IP, providing design exercises and troubleshooting scenarios for effective and controlled implementation and management of hardware and software based systems.

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Duration
1 day

Who should attend?
Those seeking to learn about TCP/IP and/or refresh their TCP/IP skills

Prerequisites
This course assumes some networking knowledge

Course objectives
Delegates gain an understanding of TCP/IP design and components

Qualifications
BTEC units towards:
BTEC Professional Certificate in LAN Design & Installation
BTEC Advanced Professional Diploma in Telecommunications Network Design
BICSI CECs: 7 Installation, 7 RCDD & 7 LAN
CableNet certificate

Related Training
Design of Voice over IP Networks
LAN Design & Implementation
Wireless LAN Design & Installation

Course Content (80% Theory, 20% Practical)

Introduction
Introduction to the TCP/IP protocol suite

TCP/IP standards
Requests for comments

TCP/IP protocol architecture
Network interface layer, Internet layer, transport layer, application layer

TCP/IP core protocol
• Internet protocol, IP header, fragmentation & reassembly
• Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
• Internet Group message protocol (IGMP)

Transmission control protocol
The TCP header

Source and destination ports
The TCP three way handshake including sliding windows, TCP application interfaces, windows sockets interface, NetBIOS interface

User Datagram protocol
The UDP header & ports

Application Layer Protocols
FTP, HTTP, Telnet, SMTP, DNS

Troubleshooting tools
Ping, tracert, ipconfig, arp, nbtstat & netstat

IP Addressing
Dotted decimal notation, address classes, network & host addresses, subnet masks

Public & private addresses
Network address translation, determining subnet addresses, the all zeros & ones subnets, defining extended subnet masks, variable length subnet masks, classless inter-domain routing

Domain Names
Host name resolution & DNS, NetBIOS name resolution, principles of IP routing, static & dynamic IP routing protocols, the routing process, longest prefix matching

IP Version 6
Introduction to IPng or Ipv6, 6to4 protocol, network address translation for IPv6