This intermediate course is designed for Network Administrators or other personnel responsible for the configuration, use, and support of TCP/IP and common network services on AIX 6.

Students should have a general working knowledge of the AIX environment and commands.

Students should be comfortable using the AIX commands line, vi, and SMIT.

These skills can be acquired by taking the following courses:

• AIX Basics (AU13) or (AN10)
• Power Systems for AIX II: AIX Implementation and Administration (AN12)

• Understand the fundamental concepts of TCP/IP, protocols, and addressing
• Configure TCP/IP on AIX
• Configure and use Telnet, FTP, REXEC, rlogin, rsh, RCP, and dsh
• Configure and use the open secure shell (OpenSSH)
• Connect multiple TCP/IP networks using static and dynamic routing
• Understand the theory of VLANs and how IEEE 801.1Q protocol is used in Power systems
• Configure routing, multipath routing and dead gateway detection (DGD)
• Understand and configure gigabit fast failover (GFF) and link aggregation (LA)/ether channel
• Combine both GFF and LA technologies to achieve the highest levels of availability
• Describe Domain Name System (DNS) function
• Configure DNS on AIX
• Describe Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) function
• Configure DHCP on AIX
• Describe Network File System (NFS) function
• Configure NFS versions 3 and 4 on AIX
• Configure the NFS automounter on AIX
• Perform basic troubleshooting of network problems

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• Unit 1: Network concepts
• Exercise 1: TCP/IP concepts
• Unit 2: Configuring TCP/IP
• Exercise 2: Configuring TCP/IP
• Unit 3: Inetd remote command services
• Exercise 3: The inetd daemon and remote inetd services

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• Unit 4: OpenSSH
• Exercise 4: OpenSSH
• Unit 5: VLAN theory
• Exercise 5: Configuring VLANs
• Unit 6: Routing
• Exercise 6: Routing
• Unit 7: Network availability

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