TCP/IP Fundamentals course outline

1. Course Introduction
2. TCP/IP Overview
   • The TCP/IP protocol stack
   • The link layer
   • The network layer: IP
   • The transport layer
   • Port numbers
   • User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
   • Displaying sockets and capturing packets
3. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
   • Overview of TCP
   • Segments
   • Sequence numbers
   • Acknowledgements and retransmissions
   • TCP header
   • TCP state machine
   • TCP connection establishment and termination
4. Transmission Control Protocol: Further Details (*)
   • Flow control and congestion control
   • TCP sliding window
5. Displaying sockets
   • ss
   • netstat
6. Capturing network packets
   • tcpdump
   • wireshark
   • Packet filtering
7. Packet filtering: capture filters
   • Capture filters
   • Capture filters and BPF (*)
8. Packet filtering: display filters
   • wireshark display filters
9. Other networking Tools (*)
   • Displaying devices and addresses
   • Testing connectivity and routes
10. Raw Sockets (*)
    • Overview of creating and using raw sockets
    • Raw sockets example

(*) Topics marked with an asterisk are optional, and will be covered as necessary and time permits.

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