Recommended course length: 2 days

Prerequisites: Completion of the Data Communications Technologies course or equivalent experience. Six months hands-on network management experience preferred.

This course gives you the straight information needed to properly evaluate Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) as a backbone. You will understand the many facets in this popular protocol, including how to streamline your network monitoring and management; decide if your company configuration is a good candidate for a subnetwork; and know if your Token Ring will work with TCP/IP. You will also save your company thousands of dollars by learning the secrets of designing a cost-effective TCP/IP backbone.

This course will enable you to identify which hardware and software are required to link to a TCP/IP backbone. You will know how to connect multi-vendor and heterogeneous systems using TCP/IP and resolve connection problems by decoding IP, TCP, and UDP header formats.

Individuals who are interested in gaining general knowledge of TCP/IP protocol implementation; especially those individuals who will be working within a Novell NetWare multi-protocol environment.

Initiate Telnet, FTP, and SMTP sessions with a host on the Internet.

Plan a TCP/IP network, implementing IP addressing and sub-net masks.

Monitor and decode IP, ARP, TCP and packets.

Install a file server as an IP router.

Monitor TCP/IP traffic from a NetWare file server using TCPCON.

Initiate IPX tunneling through an IP network.

TCP/IP Management NLM's

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