Table of Contents

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About the Club

Cloud Club Topics - Networking

Designing a network

  1. What is a network?
  2. What is a cloud?
  3. How does a cloud differ from a local network?
  4. What applications or services are you wanted to host?
  5. What equipment do you need?
  6. What software do you need?
  7. What licenses do you need ( if any )?

Understanding Networks

  1. Media Access Controll ( MAC ) Address
    1. Address assigned/burned into network card
    2. A.K.A hardware address
  2. IP addresses
    1. IPv4 vs IPv6
    2. IPv4 subnet classes ( A, B, C )
    3. Subnet masks ( IPv4 )
    4. Network Address Translation ( NAT )
  3. Network types
    1. wired
    2. wireless
  4. Network topologies
  5. Network switch
    1. How does it forward traffic?
  6. Network routing
    1. What is a router?
    2. How does it forward traffic?

Hands-on network design

  1. Subnetting
    1. Network calculator tools
      1. IP Calculator: ipcalc
      2. IP Address Range Calculator: ipinfocalc
      3. IP calculator: ipcalc
      4. CIDR / VLSM Calculator: cidr
  2. Routing
    1. Default [ network ] gateway
  3. Assigning IPs to servers
  4. Drawing a network diagram

Hands-on network setup

  1. Physical setup of a network
    1. Connecting cables
    2. Power on equipment
    3. Configuring devices
    4. Testing connections

Troubleshooting networks

  1. Tools
    1. Ping
      1. Slight differences between Windows and Linux ping command options
    2. Trace route
      1. Windows:
        1. tracert
      2. Linux:
        1. traceroute
        2. tracepath
    3. Packet Sniffing
      1. WireShark
      2. TCPdump