CCNA Part 1-Networking Core Concepts and Protocol Analysis with

Wireshark
Overview of concepts covered

1. Networking Core Concepts

2. Analysis of the following Protocols using Wireshark
a. IP
b. ARP
c. ICMP
d. UDP
e. TCP
f. Etc...
3. Working with the following servers
a. HTTP
b. FTP
c. DNS
d. DHCP
e. Mail
f. Active Directory
g. Certificate Authority

Target Audience

1. All Networking professionals wanting to upgrade their skills

2. All freshers wanting to make a career in networking
3. CCNA aspirants

Syllabus Covered

Unit No 1

Objectives: Understanding the importance of an IP address and the logic behind “Routing”

The following concepts are taught and practiced in this unit

1. Understand the importance of an “Address” and “Identification”

2. Understanding IPv4 addressing scheme
3. Understanding routing logic
a. Understanding routing table
b. Components of a route
c. Specific routes
d. Default-route
e. Default-Gateway
f. Route-lookup
g. IP forwarding functionality of a router
h. Static routing
 4. Understanding ICMP error messages like
i. Request timed out
ii. Destination host is unreachable
iii. Reply from so and so, destination host is unreachable
iv. TTL expired in transit
5. Troubleshooting using the “ping” command
6. Troubleshooting using the “tracert” command
1. Basic configuration of the following “Routing protocols”
a. Routing Information protocol – RIP
b. Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol – EIGRP
c. Open Shortest Path First - OSPF
d. Intermediate System – Intermediate System – ISIS
e. Border Gateway Protocol – BGP

Lab Practice

The students work with both configuration and troubleshooting case studies

Unit No 2

Objectives: Understanding the Importance of some Services

We have different computers playing different roles on the network. We work with the following servers
and clients. We work with the basic configuration of the following

1. HTTP server
2. FTP server
3. Mail server
4. DHCP server
5. DNS server
6. Outlook client`

Lab Practice

The students work with both configuration and troubleshooting case studies

Unit No 3

Objectives: Understanding the purpose and behavior of Protocols using Wireshark

Different Protocols come into picture, when data must be prepared and transmitted from one computer
to another. Understanding the protocols and their behavior is paramount to understanding networking.
We understand the functionality of the protocols like ARP, IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP, PPP, Frame-Relay, HDLC,
RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, DHCP, DNS, etc.

The following packet captures are discussed

1. Capture and analysis of ARP, Address Resolution packets

2. Capture and analysis of ARP, Duplicate address detection packets
 3. Capture and analysis of ICMP echo request packet
4. Capture and analysis of ICMP echo reply packet
5. Capture and analysis of ICMP Destination host is unreachable packet
6. Capture and analysis of ICMP Destination port is unreachable packet
7. Capture and analysis of ICMP TTL expired in transit packet
8. Capture and analysis of ICMP Administratively prohibited packet
9. Capture and analysis of “Tracert” command packets
10. Capture and analysis of DNS standard query and Standard Response packets
11. Capture and analysis of DHCP Discover, Offer, Request and ACK packets
12. Capture and analysis of flooded broadcast packets
13. Capture and analysis of UDP protocol packets
14. Capture and analysis of NetBIOS name registration packet
15. Capture and analysis of Directed broadcast packet
16. Capture and analysis of unicast packet on Ethernet
17. Capture and analysis of broadcast packet on Ethernet
18. Capture and analysis of Multicast packets on Ethernet
19. Capture and analysis of PPP protocol packets
20. Capture and analysis of HDLC protocol packet
21. Capture and analysis of Frame Relay protocol packet
22. Capture and analysis of packets being forwarded by the router
23. Capture and analysis of TCP Connection establishment packets
24. Capture and analysis of TCP Connection termination packets
25. Capture and analysis of packets to understand TCP flags like, SYN, ACK, Reset, Push, FIN
26. Capture and analysis of FTP Control session packets
27. Capture and analysis of FTP Data session in active mode packets
28. Capture and analysis of FTP Data session in passive mode packets
29. Capture and analysis of RIP protocol packets
30. Capture and analysis of OSPF protocol packets
31. Capture and analysis of BGP protocol packets

Unit No 4

Objective: Understand the packet structures by packet filtering (Access-Lists)

The following topics are covered

1. Standard Access-Lists
2. Extended Access-lists.

Lab Practice

The students work with both configuration and troubleshooting case studies

Unit No 5

Objectives: Understanding DHCP, DNS and Active Directory concepts

Topics Covered
1. Understanding DHCP traffic

b. DHCP Discover
c. DHCP Offer
d. DHCP Request
e. DHCP Ack
2. DHCP Relay agent
3. Understanding DNS
a. DNS Recursion process
b. Domain delegation
c. Conditional forwarding
d. Mail Exchanger (MX) records
e. Zone file transfer
4. Active Directory concepts
f. AD integrated DNS
g. AD users and groups
h. Shared folder permissions

Lab Practice

The students work with both configuration and troubleshooting case studies

Unit No 6

Objectives: Understanding the configuration of Certificate Authority

Topics Covered

1. Basics of cryptography
a. Keys, algorithms, symmetric and asymmetric encryption, public key, private key,
b. Certification authority, digital certificates,
2. Certificate Authority

Lab Practice

The students work with both configuration and troubleshooting case studies

Unit No 7

Lab practice

The students work with a mega case study combining all the concepts they learn in the course