Solaris 10 Network Administration

Course review:

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), Solaris 10 Systems Administration (Part 2) and Solaris Advanced Administration 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.

Our Solaris courses are suitable training for Solaris Certification


TOPICS COVERED ON THE COURSE

* 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.