Categories: Linux administration, Networking
Participants learn the principles of virtual private networks and configuration details of most common VPN solutions on Linux.
Duration
1 day
Agenda
- Overview of related concepts: network protocol stack, ISO/OSI model
- frame structure at each layer
- IP, ICMP, UDP and TCP protocols, reliable connections, retransmissions
- Encryption, symmetric and public-key, RSA
- Security, man-in-the-middle attacks
- VPNs
- common uses, operation principles
- examples
- when not to use
- IPsec, IPsec on Linux
- StrongSWAN, OpenSWAN
- Eavesdropping
- PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunelling Protocol)
- when to use
- PPTP/MPPE architecture, Linux as a PPTP server with Windows as a client
- Linux as a PPTP client
- OpenVPN
Audience and prerequisites
The course targets at least intermediate-level Linux system/network administrators.
Participants must have good knowledge of general Linux administration and network configuration.
Certificates
Course participants receive completion certificates signed by ALX.
See also:
- Linux administrator
- Advanced Linux administrator
- LPI 101. An introduction to Linux administration
- LPI 102. Linux administration and networking
- Building a modern CI / CD process using the Jenkins server
- Selected Linux network services
- Selected Linux server-side technologies
- LPI 201. Linux architecture and low-level configuration
- File sharing and directory services
- LPI 202. Selected network services and network security
- LPIC-2 exam prep course
- LPI 300: LDAP, Samba, Integration with MS Windows and Mixed Environments
- LPI 303: Cryptography, Access Control, Services and Network Security
- LPI 304: Linux Virtualization and High Availability
- E-mail server - Exim, anti-spam solutions
- E-mail server - Postfix
- Bash shell programming
- Advanced shell programming, Bash, AWK
- Linux backups
- Advanced network traffic and content filtering
- Bandwidth and Traffic Management (QoS) on Linux
- Server and network monitoring, SNMP, Nagios, Munin
- Apache HTTP server on Linux
- Bind domain name server on Linux
- LDAP directory services on Linux. Integrating authorization systems
- Samba server on Linux
- Advanced Samba configuration (PDC, LDAP, replication)
- Linux virtualization
- Wireless networks and their security
- Digital signature and encryption with OpenSSL and GnuPG
- High availability: Linux Virtual Server and supporting technologies (HA1)
- NFS: Network File System on Linux
- Safe Internet in a computer lab
- Security components in Linux
- Linux - application and kernel debugging
- Linux - exploiting applications and operating system. Low level attacks.
- Linux - application security testing, searching for possible exploits. High-level attacks
- MySQL administration
