Network Administration

Computer Center, CS, NCTU 2 Syllabus  Website:  Instructors: 翁綜禧 劉用翔 許立文 蔡佳宏  Time: Tue. IJK (PM 6:30 ~ 9:20)  Place: EC122  Course Newsgroup cs.course.netadmin  TAs: We might get about 2 TAs. (TBA) to TAs: IRC channel

Computer Center, CS, NCTU 3 Syllabus – Course Textbook and Reference  Textbook UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 4th ed. Slides  Reference book TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1 Programming Perl Postfix DNS and BIND SNMP, SNMPv2, SNMPv3 and RMON 1, 2

Computer Center, CS, NCTU 4 Syllabus – Course Overview  Main topics Perl Programming Networking  TCP/IP Networking  Network Environment  NAT, DHCP, Firewall, FTP, VPN, Proxy, … Mail System -- Postfix  SPF, DKIM, … DNS -- BIND Usenet -- INN Network Management  Additional candidate topics PGP, FreeBSD jail

Computer Center, CS, NCTU 5 Syllabus – Grade Policy  Mid 15 ~ 20%  Final 15 ~ 20%  Exercise 60 ~ 70%  No Delay Work  4 exercises  One term project  Presentation or quiz 10%  We may have some bonus quiz Grade will not be normalize. Why? Do exercise gets points. Study book gets points.

Computer Center, CS, NCTU 6 Syllabus – Prerequisite  Background Knowledges It is better to have taken  “System Administration” ( 計算機系統管理 )  “Introduction to Networking” ( 計算機網路概論 )  Environment One dedicated PC (Or you can use virtual PC.)  With Unix-like OS installed (e.g. FreeBSD, Linux, Sun OS, …etc.)  FreeBSD is recommended, for the reason of TA supports. One extra IP  Yourself Attend every class Read book at least 6 hours every week Collect information in the Internet Play with your server at least 10 hours every week

Computer Center, CS, NCTU 7 SA-NA Junction  FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE  Install OS and software (ports)