The Network Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform network administration tasks, such as configuration and troubleshooting of a local area network (LAN). This course also provides hands-on experience with topics, such as Internet Protocol (IP) routing, Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), IP version 6 (IPv6) and the Solaris IP Filter firewall.

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Students who can benefit from this course are experienced system administrators who are or will be responsible for administering Sun systems in a networked environment that includes LANs and the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

• Install, configure, and maintain a Solaris OS product line server
• Change system run levels
• Read and edit system resource files

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Configure the Network Interface layer
• Configure the network (Internet and Transport layers)
• Configure and manage network applications

Module 1 - Introducing the TCP/IP Model

• Describe network model fundamentals
• Describe the layers of the Transmission Control Protocol/IP (TCP/IP) model
• Describe basic peer-to-peer communication and related protocols
• Identify TCP/IP protocols

• Describe network topologies
• Describe LAN media
• Describe network devices

• Describe Ethernet concepts
• Describe Ethernet frames
• Use network utilities

• Describe Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
• Describe Reverse ARP (RARP)

• Describe the Internet layer protocols
• Describe the IP datagram
• Describe IP address types
• Describe subnetting and variable length subnet masks (VLSMs)
• Describe the interface configuration files
• Administer logical interfaces

• Describe IP multipathing
• Implement IP multipathing

• Identify the fundamentals of routing
• Describe routing table population
• Describe routing protocol types
• Describe the routing table
• Configure static routing
• Configure dynamic routing
• Describe classless inter-domain routing (CIDR)
• Configure routing at system boot
• Troubleshoot routing

• Describe IPv6
• Describe IPv6 addressing
• Describe IPv6 autoconfiguration
• Describe IPv6 unicast address types
• Describe IPv6 multicast address types
• Enable IPv6
• Manage IPv6
• Configure 6to4 routing
• Configure IPv6 multipathing

• Describe Transport layer fundamentals
• Describe User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
• Describe TCP
• Describe TCP flow control

• Describe the DNS basics
• Configure the DNS server
• Troubleshoot the DNS server using basic utilities

• Describe the fundamentals of DHCP
• Configure a DHCP server
• Configure and manage DHCP clients
• Troubleshoot a DHCP server
• Troubleshoot a DHCP client

• Identify NTP basics
• Configure an NTP server
• Configure an NTP client
• Troubleshoot NTP

• Identify Solaris IP Filter firewall basics
• Configure Solaris IP Filter firewall