CS
4451: Network Administration
Spring 2012
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Instructor |
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Ruihong Zhang |
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Office
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Rekhi 302 |
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Class
Meeting |
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M,W 3:05pm – 4:20pm |
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Classroom
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Rekhi
215 |
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Office
Hour |
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Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 2:00pm – 3:00pm |
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Phone
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(906) 482-1638 |
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e-mail
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Ruihong at mtu dot edu |
Objectives
The main goal of this course is to help students to build
up their knowledge and practical administration skills for TCP/IP networks.
Topics to be covered include: overview of network architectures, basic
configuration, interface configuration, configuring routing, DNS, local network
Services such as DHCP, NFS, NIS, LPD and POP/IMAP, mail server, web server, firewall, network
monitoring and troubleshooting.
Prerequisites /Corequisites
CS 3451 Computer Administration
CS 4461 Computer Networks
Textbook
· Required Text Book: Unix and Linux
System Administration Handbook, 4th edition, by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder,
Trent R. Hein, Ben Whaley
Grading
Homework and lab: 70%
In class Exam 15%
Final Project: 15%
Grading
will be based approximately on the scale shown in the table below.
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Grade |
A |
AB |
B |
BC |
C |
CD |
D |
F |
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Scale |
90-100% |
85-89% |
80-84% |
75-79% |
70-74% |
65-69% |
60-64% |
0-59% |
Late homework and lab report will not be accepted unless
you have a valid excuse.
Class web
page:
Lecuture notes, assignements, and
graded are posted in Canvas.
Tentative Schedule
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Week |
Topics
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Related chapter |
New assignment |
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1
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Lab
introduction Overview
of TCP/IP Delivering
the Data |
Ch14 |
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2
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Network
Devices Network
Topologies Cabling
and Connectors |
Ch16 |
HW1: network Address Lab
0:
make your own cable |
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3
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Network
Services Getting
Started Network
Monitoring |
Ch17,ch18,ch19 |
Lab
1: packet sniff Reading: ch5 Basic Configuration |
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4
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Configuring
the Interface |
Ch14 |
Lab
2: Host router |
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5
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Configuring
Routing |
Ch15 |
Lab
3: RIP |
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6
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DNS
Local
Network Svs |
Ch17 |
Lab
4: OSPF |
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7
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Local
Network Svs (cont.) |
Ch18,ch19,ch26 |
Lab 5: DNS |
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8
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Samba
(PDF) |
Ch30 |
Lab
6: NIS + NFS Lab 7: Printer/Samba/DHCP |
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9
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Apache
(PDF) Secure
Web Services (PDF) |
Ch23 |
Lab 8: Apache |
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10
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Sendmail(PDF) |
Ch20 |
Lab
9: Sendmail |
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11
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VLAN WAN
Technology |
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Lab
10: Switch |
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12
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Network
Security (IPSec, Firewall, VPN) |
Ch22 |
Lab
11: Firewall |
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13
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Exam Network
Management |
Ch21 |
Lab
12: SNMP and MRTG |
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14
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Performance/SpecWeb Kerberos |
Ch29 |
Lab
13: Specweb |
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Final
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Project
presentation |
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Optional labs:
Secure NFS
Dedicated connections (ppp with serial, ethernet, ssh)
Kerberos installation
Network Topology Discovery
Nagios
VPN