CNIT 270.  Unix/Linux Network Services - Schedule
Dates are subject to change (last updated:  4/17/2012)



Date
Week Topic Reading Quiz/Lab  Due
1/17
0
Classes start



1/24
1 Introduction, Overview
Review of OSI &
TCP/IP network models
Ch 1
Ch 2.1-2.3
Appendix

Review Pre-Req Skills (part of Lab 1)
Login to Insight, Hills, & our experimental Linux, subnet (part of Lab 1)
Lab 1: Orientation, Accounts, pre-req skills, internet research
Initial Survey
1/30
1/30
2/08
2/08
1/30**
2 Review What A System Admin Does
Review of Basic Networking, pt 1
Ch 1, 2
Ch 14.1-14.3

First In-Person Class
Login to Linux in Batmale 413
Lab 2: ISPs & backbones


in-class
2/08

2/06 3 Review of Basic Networking, pt 2


Ch 14.5-14.11


Lab 3: How Headers Change as Frames cross a Network
Lab 4:  Network Script

Quiz 1 - OSI, TCP/IP,  Protocols, Encapsulation

2/12
3/18

2/08-2/15
2/13**
4
Review of Subnetting
Routing
Ch 14.4
Ch  15
Lab 5:  Using Wireshark
Lab 6:  Configuring Static Routes
in-class
in-class

2/20 5
HOLIDAY - President's Day Weekend
Quiz 2 -  IP addressing, Routing Tables, Subnetting


2/27
6
ifconfig, netstat -i, -r, -n
Network Hardware


Ch 16





3/05**
7
inetd, xinetd
DNS, part 1
Ch 17
Lab 7: Xinetd
Lab 9, DNS Part 1 & 2
Lab 9, DNS Part 4
Quiz 3 - Routing, Netstat, Xinetd
in-class
3/14
3/21
3/09-3/18
3/12
8
DNS, part 2

Ch 17


3/19**
9
DNS, part 3
start NFS
Ch 17
Ch 18
Quiz 4 - DNS
Lab 10: NFS
3/21-4/04
in-class
3/26 10
HOLIDAY - Spring Break (3/23-3/30)


4/02**
11
Sharing System Files
  NIS, LDAP
Ch 19
NIS exercise

4/09
12
Email, part 1 Ch 20
Quiz 5 - NFS, LDAP, NIS

4/11-4/18
4/16**
 13
Email, Part 2 Ch 20
Lab 11:  Email & Aliases
Lab 12:  Printing with CUPS
4/23
4/30
4/23
14
Printing Ch 21
Quiz 6 - Email & Printing 4/25-5/02
4/30**
15 Security

Ch 22
Security exercises: eg, nmap, tcp wrappers, selinux
Lab 13: IPtables
Extra Credit 1: increasing DNS security, or special projects
in-class
in-class
5/14
5/07
16 Data Center Basics, Green IT,
other miscellaneous topics
Ch 27, 28

Extra Credit 2:  Security Tools

5/25


5/14**
17
Management, Policy, Politics
Final Discussion & Review
Ch 32 Tough Situation Discussion
HandsOn Final Practice

5/21**

18
FINAL EXAMS
  Final Exam Timeslots

HandsOn Exam Terms
Written Exam Terms

** Dates with asterisks are the In-Person meetings in Batmale 413.   The rest of the class is online.