Solaris 8 Network Administration

Audience: New Solaris System Administrators with at least 6 months working experience on a Solaris system, or anyone needing to administer a Solaris machine in a networked environment.

Prerequisites: Solaris Fundamentals, Solaris System Admin 1 and Solaris System Admin 2.

Overview: This class provides students with hands on experience in a Solaris network. Some of the topics covered are TCP/IP, DNS and DHCP.

1 - Network Models

Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to:

• Describe the seven layers of the ISO/OSI model
• Describe the five layers of the TCP/IP model
• Identify the similarities and differences between the ISO/OSI and TCP/IP models
• Describe how applications use TCP/IP to exchange data through Ethernet networks
• Describe the following protocols: TCP, UDP, IP, ICMP
• Explain peer-to-peer communications
• Identify common TCP/IP protocols by name and function

2 - Introduction to Local Area Networks

Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to:

• Review the benefits of a LAN
• Review the components of a LAN
• Define these networking terms: topology, backbone, segment, repeater, bridge, router, switch, and gateway
• Identify various LAN topologies
• List available Sun communications controllers
• Describe LAN access methods such as IEEE 802.3, ATM, Token Ring, and FDDI
• Discriminate between network media types such as 10BASE-T, 1000BASE-CX, and 1000BASE-T

3 - Ethernet Interface

Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to:

• Define the terms: Ethernet, packet, frame, and MTU
• List the different Ethernet Standards
• Describe Ethernet addresses
• Describe the components of an Ethernet frame
• Explain encapsulation
• Describe the purpose of CSMA/CD
• Define an Ethernet broadcast address
• Describe the features of Fast Ethernet
• Use the netstat and snoop commands
• Introduction to using the ndd utility

4 - ARP and RARP

Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to:

• Define address resolution
• Obtain a destination Ethernet address
• Describe the network configuration process used in system startup
• Describe the network configuration files and scripts that are used to configure the network interface
• Describe the process used to map a destination IP address to a destination Ethernet address
• Describe the internal process used to map a host's Ethernet address to its IP address
• Manage Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) cache

5 - Internet Layer

Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to:

• Define the terms: IP, datagrams, ICMP, and fragmentation
• List the four IPv4 address classes
• Define the three standard netmasks
• Define the network number
• Complete the IP configuration exercise
• Decipher an Ethernet address from an IP address from a broadcast address
• Define subnets and list how and when to implement them
• Use a subnet mask
• Use variable length subnet masks (VLSM)
• Describe Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR)
• Discuss trunking (interface aggregation)
• Configure logical (virtual) interfaces
• Use the ifconfig command to configure network interface(s)
• Verify and troubleshoot a network interface

6 - Routing

Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to:

• Describe the routing algorithm
• Define: direct routing, indirect routing, table-driven routing, static routing, dynamic routing, and default routing
• Use the in.routed and in.rdisc processes
• Use the Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and Router Discovery (RDISC) Protocol
• Describe the /etc/init.d/inetinit routing startup script
• Use the /etc/defaultrouter, /etc/inet/networks, and /etc/gateways files
• Use the route and netstat commands
• Configure a Sun system as an IPv4 router
• Describe ICMP redirects
• Describe IP multicasting

7 - Transport Layer

Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to:

• Describe the function of the Transport layer
• List the features of the UDP and TCP
• Define the terms: connection-oriented, connectionless, stateful, and stateless
• Define a port and a port number
• Explain network services and UDP and TCP ports
• Define TCP flow control