Class Description: By the use of lectures, live demonstrations and a practical lab exercise planned for the optional second class, this two night mini-course will teach attendees how to effectively setup, configure, manage and secure a small home network. An opportunity will be provided for attendees to work on and configure their own equipment brought with a laptop to class on the second night.This course will focus on delivering practical tips that are equally of value to consultants, small business owners, and home users alike. It will include an interactive discussion of setting up a small network, either wired and wireless, with an emphasis on dymistifying LAN terminology, providing some protection against hostile Internet attacks, sharing resources such as printers, and Internet sharing techniques for multiple computers to share a single Internet connection.

Possible subjects for discussion include:

• Differences between analog dialup, ISDN, DSL and cable modem.

• Differences between modem, bridge, router, access point.

• Differences between 802.3 10baseT, 100baseT and 1Gb; 802.11A, 802.11B, 802.11G.

• What are Port Filters, Address Filters, Firewalls, Proxy and Virtual Servers.

• Static IP, Dynamic IP using DHCP, PPP over Ethernet, Dial-up on Demand.

• Wireless Setup of Channel/SSID, Encryption, MAC Filtering, Demilitarized Zone.

• WAP 64-bit, 128-bit, 128-bit-manual.

• Security issues, eavesdropping, VPNs.

Targetted for: Home users, consultants, small business owners, and individuals wishing to better understand and be able to configure and problem solve their home network. Some prior knowledge of TCP/IP networking and navigating Windows would be helpful but not required.

Prerequisite: None required.  Some knowledge of networking would be helpful.

Handouts: Copies of the course outline slides will be provided along with relevant handouts when appropriate.

For more info: email to jeffg@qualware.com

Lecturer’s biography:

Jeff Goldberg, of Qualware Instructional Services, is a long time innovative user of UNIX and Internet services.  Mr. Goldberg currently develops and delivers customized corporate training classes along with very flexible scheduling, to avoid project disruption, in the fields of IT operations, operating system and computer languages. Specialties include UNIX Fundamentals, Perl and Shell Scripting, Linux/UNIX System Administration and TCP/IP Networking, Web Technologies such as Visual Basic, Java Script, PHP Apache, C++, Java and SQL Database Access, Computer and Network Security.

copywrite 2005 Qualware Instructional Services and Jeffrey Goldberg.

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for  this Courses is Monday April 4, 2005

Course Fee Schedule:

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