Workshops

Calendar and Venue

Date: Jan 28 to Feb 1st, 2024
Time: 09:30 – 17:30 NPT (GMT+0545)
Venue: Hotel Aikawa, Nikunja Chowk, Sauraha, Chitwan

Workshop Details

1. Network Essentials

Trainers:

  • Dibya Khatiwada – PCH
  • Rupesh Basnet – Om Networks
  • Rupesh Thapa – Subisu Cablenet Ltd.
  • Santosh Majhi – Worldlink Communications Ltd.
  • Kamlesh Yadav – Worldlink Communications Ltd.
  • Sabin Paudel – Subisu Cablenet Ltd.

Synopsis

Target Audience

  • This course is targeted to Technical staff who are involved in Internet technology standards, local and national network infrastructure planning & deployment, and day-to-day network operations.

Pre-requisites

It is assumed that participants have a basic understanding of:

  • Network Operations, Internet technologies, OSI reference model and TCP/IP.
  • Basic command line (CLI) skills.

It is assumed that the workshop participants have a working knowledge of IP Routing, and are comfortable with basic linux commands and how to use a router command line interface. This workshop is not an introduction. The lab exercises use Cisco IOS configuration syntax.

Course Outline:

Networking Essentials Workshop: Layers 1-3, Monitoring and Troubleshooting.
  • Day 1 – 1.5
    • TCP/IP Model – OSI Model
    • Campus LAN Design Principles
    • Layer 1
      • Wired Network
      • Optical Network
      • Wireless Network
  • Day 1.5 – 3
    • Layer 2
      • Layer 2 Fundamentals and switching
      • VLAN and L2 Security
    • Layer 3
      • Overview of Internet
      • IPv4 and IPv6 Addressing
      • Network Address Translation (NAT)
      • Routing Fundamentals (Static, Dynamic)
      • Network Security Fundaments and ACLs
      • Hands-on LAB
  • Day 4-5
    • Network Management and Monitoring
      • DNS Fundamentals
      • SNMP and monitoring tools (Uptime Kuma, Nagios, Cacti, LibreNMS, Smokeping)
      • Log management and configuration backup
      • Network Documentation
      • Hands-on LAB
    • Troubleshooting Network Connectivity
      • Layer 1
      • Layer 2
      • Layer 3
      • Packet capture and protocol analysis – Tshark/WireShark

Other requirements

  • Face to face – Participants are advised to bring their own laptop computers with high-speed Wi-Fi (802.11a/g/n/ac) and administrative access to system. It is also recommended that laptops have Intel i5 or i7 processor, >=8GB of RAM and 30GB of free hard disk space.
  • Software: SSH Client, Telnet Client, VirtualBox/VMware
  • Confirm Secure SHell (SSH) is allowed from the office or home network to access the lab infrastructure. Test ssh connectivity, try to connect to route-views.routeviews.org. For example from the CLI type: ssh [email protected]