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Network Configuration and Troubleshooting: Hands-On
You Will Learn How To
- Configure, maintain and troubleshoot multiple network configurations
- Configure and test network adapters for optimum LAN performance
- Install a switched network with VLANs
- Access and secure your wireless network
- Manage IP address assignments and subnetting
- Identify and resolve application layer issues using protocol analysis
Course Benefits
Providing users with constant access to critical data is essential for the success of today's rapidly evolving networks. In this course, you gain the skills necessary to configure networks and resolve problems related to cables, wireless connections, protocols and applications. You learn to configure, maintain and troubleshoot networks using a comprehensive set of tools and techniques.
Who Should Attend
Anyone involved in designing, configuring, installing or maintaining a network. Networking experience at the level of Course 450, "Networking Comprehensive Introduction", or equivalent knowledge is assumed.
Hands-on Training
You gain hands-on experience configuring and troubleshooting a network. Exercises include:
- Testing cables and connections using a cable scanner
- Diagnosing cable and connection configuration to ensure operation
- Analysing traffic with Wireshark
- Upgrading to a switched network
- Implementing VLANs
- Setting up and securing a wireless network
- Allocating an IP address with DHCP
- Interpreting a routing table
- Troubleshooting name resolution
Course Content
- Types of networks
- Hardware and software
- The 7-layer model
- Executing a troubleshooting methodology
- Employing fault isolation at each layer
- Twisted pair
- Fibre
- Wireless
- EIA/TIA standards
- Strategies for successful configuration
- Validating wiremap with cable scanner
- MDI/MDI-X port configuration
- Specifying various fibre types
- Designating Layer 2 MAC address
- Demystifying access methods: Collision Detection/Avoidance
- Displaying NIC configuration
- Logical and physical topologies
- Star
- Hybrid
- Mesh
- 802 standards
- Wireless
- Fast and Gigabit Ethernet
- xDSL
- Cable modem
- Frame Relay
- ATM
- Testing speed and duplex settings
- Authenticating using 802.1X and EAP
- Differentiating between Ethernet and 802.3 frame formats
- Choosing a hardware or software analyser
- Capturing and filtering traffic with Wireshark
- Deploying switches
- Interpreting Layer 2 traffic
- Upgrading to a switch
- Defining the VLAN
- Interconnecting VLANs across switches
- Port tagging with 802.1Q
- Network types and standards
- Selecting infrastructure or ad hoc mode
- IBSS
- BSS
- ESS
- Setting up the access point
- Configuring the SSID on a client
- Securing the wireless traffic
- The TCP/IP protocol suite
- OSI model vs. TCP/IP model
- Characterising NetID and HostID
- Public vs. private addresses
- Allocating addresses with DHCP
- Managing addresses with ifconfig/ipconfig
- Resolving address conflicts
- Subnetting and the adjacency test
- Interpreting a routing table
- TCP
- UDP
- IP
- ARP
- ICMP
- Identifying common protocol issues
- File
- Print
- Messaging
- Database
- DNS
- Web services
- Debugging name resolution with nslookup
- Identifying network management components using SNMP
- Querying the MIB for device status
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