I CONFIGURING THE NETWORK

• Networking fundamentals
• Manage network interfaces
• Manage routing
• Configure the network with NetworkManager and command line tools
• Provide secure remote access with OpenSSH
• Enable remote administration with YaST

II

CONFIGURE NETWORK SERVICES

• Manage xinetd
• Enable ftp
• Configure xntp

III

DNS

• DNS principles
• Background and history of BIND
• Installing and configuring the BIND software
• Configuring clients and servers
• Access, logging and security
• Troubleshooting

IV

DHCP

• DHCP principles
• DHCP implementation
• DHCP clients and Servers
• DHCP relay server
• Troubleshooting DHCP

V OpenLDAP

• LDAP principles
• What is OpenLDAP?
• Installing an OpenLDAP server
• Adding, querying and deleting information
• Authentication
• Replication

VI

CONFIGURE THE

NETWORK FILE SYSTEM (NFS)

• Configure NFS on the client and the server

VII MAIL SERVERS

• Mail Server Principles
• Sendmail vs Postfix
• postfix architecture
• Managing postfix
• Configuring postfix
• Spam and virus control

VIII

OpenSLP

• What is OpenSLP
• SLP Agents
• Configuring SLP

IX

APACHE WEB SERVER

• Apache fundamentals
• Installing apache
• Apache services
• Configuring Apache for virtual hosts .....

X SAMBA

• Build a Samba server
• Configure a file server
• Configure a print server
• Configure user authentication

XI

NETWORK MONITORING

• Network monitoring principles
• Benefit from Nagios, Ethereal and tcpdump
• Manage network devices

XII

SECURITY CONCEPT

• Linux security model
• General principles of host and network security

XIII HOST SECURITY

• Securing physical access
• Filesystem security
• Security updates
• Documentation

XIV CRYPTOGRAPHY

• Principles of cryptography
• Use YaST to create CA and certificates
• GPG

XV NETWORK SECURITY

• Principles of network security
• TCP Wrappers
• Managing SSL

XVI FIREWALLS

• Firewall principles
• Firewall components
• Firewall architectures
• Packet filters, iptables and NAT
• Configure gateways including Squid, Dante

XVII VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS

• VPN principles
• IPSec connectivity and traffic

XVIII INTRUSION DETECTION and RESPONSE

• What are Instrusions
• Current status of intrusions
• Log Files
• Intrusion detection and response