OPS335 Weekly Schedule

The course schedule, labs, and links are subject to change.
Check with your professor for details and changes specific to your section.

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Week	Objectives and Tasks	Assigned Reading	Labs / Exercises
Week 1 04 Sep. - 07 Sep.	Introduction to OPS335 outline, policies, assignments, labs, midterm test, quizzes, exam, email Fedora Project Overview	Chapter One - Where to Start Fedora 16 Installation Guide Installation GRUB Boot Loader Partitioning for Fedora	Lab 0 Fedora Installation
Week 2 10 Sep. - 14 Sep.	Basic Networking ifconfig, aliasing, route, iptables, ping, configuring a gateway, ip forwarding, masquerading, interface aliasing	Chapter 14 - TCP/IP Networking Fedora Systemd Documentation	Lab 1 Configuring a Gateway
Week 3 17 Sep. - 21 Sep.	Packet Filtering iptables	Chapter 22 - Security	Lab 2 Packet Filtering
Week 4 24 Sep. - 28 Sep.	DNS nslookup, dig, host, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts, /etc/named.conf	Chapter 17 - DNS: The Domain Name System	Lab 3 DNS Setup
Week 5 01 Oct. - 05 Oct.	Mail postfix, smtp, imap, pop, mailx [Assignment #1]	Chapter 20 - Electronic Mail	Lab 4 Postfix Mail Configuration
Week 6 08 Oct. - 12 Oct.	Midterm Test (During lab period)
Week 7 15 Oct. - 19 Oct.	Web Servers Apache installation and configuration Assignment #1 is due on Friday at 11:59 p.m.	Chapter 23 - Web Hosting	Lab 5 Apache Install/Config Assignment #1 Due
Study Week
Week 8 29 Oct. - 02 Nov.	FTP Server	vsftpd (ftp server) project web site /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf configuration file vsftpd FAQ Tutorial on ftp commands	Lab 6 VSFTP Server Setup
Week 9 05 Nov. - 09 Nov.	NFS with Automount exportfs, showmount, /etc/exports,autofs, auto.master	Chapter 18 - The Network File System	Lab 7 NFS Setup
Week 10 12 Nov. - 16 Nov.	NIS ypserv, ypbind, ypcat [Assignment #2]	Chapter 19 - Sharing System Files	Lab 8 NIS Configuration
Week 11 19 Nov. - 23 Nov.	SAMBA smbclient, smbmount (mount -t cifs), smbpasswd, smb.conf	Chapter 30 - Cooperating with Windows	Lab 9 Samba Servers and Clients
Week 12 26 Nov. - 30 Nov.	Backup/Restore tar, cpio, dump/restore, wget, netcat, ssh, scp, rsync, cron, at	Chapter 10 - Backups	Lab 10 Automating Backups
Week 13 03 Dec. - 07 Dec.	Exam Review Assignment #2 due		Assignment #2 Outstanding Labs
Exam Week