Internetworking

This course provides an overview of the TCP/IP Protocol Suite and examines the group of protocols which is at the core of the Internet and organizational intranets. The course is designed to provide the student the knowledge and skills required to set up, configure, support, and troubleshoot TCP/IP-based networks. Topics to be discussed will include: routing and switching technologies, IP address management techniques in large scalable networked environments, subnetting and VLSM, access control lists, distance vector and link-state routing algorithms. Related security issues when routing involves multiple autonomous systems will be examined.