Who should attend: Attendees should have some prior experience using IP networks, but do not need to be experienced administrators.

What you will learn: The workings of essential Internet protocols and how to administer them.

This tutorial will start with the Internet model and some basics such as numerical addresses and relationships to the ISO model. It will then progress to the fundamentally important protocols: IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP, ARP, and RARP. With this firm foundation, the course will focus on effective admini stra tion of a local IP network. Topics include:

- Routing basics and interior routing protocols
- Subnetting
- Classless routing
- BOOTP/DHCP
- UNIX host configuration
- Troubleshooting

As time permits, there will be an overview of the protocols used by the popular applica tion level programs: Telnet, TFTP, FTP, SMTP, and rexec.

Bill LeFebvre has been banging on UNIX systems since 1981 and has been poking around with Internet technology since 1983. He currently runs Group sys Consulting. He has been a regular tutorial instructor at USENIX conferences since 1992 and is also a columnist for UNIX Review.

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