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.

Week	Objectives and Tasks	Assigned Reading	Labs / Exercises
Week 1	Introduction to OPS335 outline, policies, assignments, labs, midterm test, quizzes, exam, email Fedora Project Overview	Chapter One - Where to Start Fedora 13 Installation Guide Installation GRUB Boot Loader Partitioning for Fedora	Lab 0 Fedora Installation
Week 2	Basic Networking ifconfig, aliasing, route, iptables, ping, configuring a gateway, ip forwarding, masquerading, interface aliasing	Chapter 14 - TCP/IP Networking	Lab 1 Configuring a Gateway
Week 3	Packet Filtering iptables	Chapter 22 - Security	Lab 2 Packet Filtering
Week 4	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	Mail postfix, smtp, imap, pop, mailx Assignment #1 handed out	*Chapter 20 - Electronic Mail	Lab 4 Postfix Mail Configuration
Week 6	Web Servers apache installation and configuration Quiz #1 & Review	*Chapter 23 - Web Hosting	Lab 5 Apache Install/Config
Week 7	Midterm Test Assignment #1 due		Assignment #1 Due
Study Week
Week 8	FTP Server		Lab 6 VSFTP Server Setup
Week 9	NFS with Automount exportfs, showmount, /etc/exports,autofs, auto.master		Lab 7 NFS Setup
Week 10	NIS ypserv, ypbind, ypcat		Lab 8 NIS Configuration
Week 11	SAMBA smbclient, smbmount (mount -t cifs), smbpasswd, smb.conf		Lab 9 Samba Servers and Clients
Week 12	Backup/Restore tar, cpio, dump/restore, wget, netcat, ssh, scp, rsync, cron, at		Lab 10 Automating Backups
Week 13	Quiz #2 & Review Assignment #2 due		Assignment #2 Outstanding Labs
Exam Week

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