Simple Practical Networking with Linux

You will see networks every where. You will think, a computer is nearly useless if it is not connected to the Internet. If you have completed our "Simple Linux Programming" course, you might have learned how to establish communication between two programs running on two different computers. But you will not know, how exactly these two programs are communicating. This course is just for that. In this course, no programming is involved. But you will physically connect computers in different ways and observe the packets going between them. All your job is to understand the purpose and contents of each of these packets.

This course should be taken after Simple Linux Programming, who are keen on networking career.

This module is also suitable for Computer science and IT students, who wish to make their career in the networking. Lot of networking companies appreciate this course a lot. Computer and IT students, can take up C Programming, Linux Programming and then this Practical Networking.

Forming and understanding a simple LAN

• LAN Concepts and IP Address
• With single Ethernet cable
• With Hub
• With Switch
• With Multiple switches

Understanding Ethernet Frame and ARP protocol

• Ethernet frame format
• Purpose of ARP
• ARP packet format

Network Concepts and IP Protocol

• More about IP addresses
• IP layer functionality
• IP packet contents

ICMP Protocol

• Purpose of ICMP protocol
• ICMP packet contents

Communication between Networks

• Concept of routing
• Understanding routers

UDP protocol and Applications

• UDP header format
• Understanding UDP applications

TCP protocol and Applications

• TCP header format and concepts
• TCP Connection establishment
• Data transfer
• Connection termination
• Understanding TCP applications