Class Syllabus: Using a Protocol Analyzer

Office Hours:	9-11 AM EST(-5:00 GMT) on Saturday
Course Meeting Times:	9-11 AM EST(-5:00 GMT) on Saturday

Course Description

How to utilize a Protocol Analyzer to troubleshoot LAN traffic.

This Course is intended for Network Professionals, Network Administrators or Anyone who wants to start learning more about the traffic on their network connection. A Protocol Analyzer allows you to capture and display traffic on your network connection.

It is a beginners guide to installing and using a Protocol Analyzer.

This Course will cover:

Downloading, installing software for the Protocol Analyzer. Step by step instructions for where to go to get the Free Software to run your own personal Protocol Analyzer. Downloading instructions and Installation instructions.
Capturing Protocol Traces. Learn how to Capture network traffic - the magic that makes the network run.
Displaying Captured data. View the network traffic you capture to unlock the magic of the network. Find out who is talking to who and what they are downloading.
Customizing a Protocol Analyzer's settings. Customizing makes the Protocol Analyzer easier to use because it has all the preferences you set. We'll go through the preferences and their settings to explain what they are used for.
Filtering to capture what you want. Most traffic on a network is routine - Learn how to capture just the network traffic that you want to see with Capture Filters. Sometimes you've captured everything going across a network connection and don't want to have to look at thousands of frames on information to find what you want. To find what you want we will use Display Filters to weed out what you don't want to see.

This course will apply to using many brands of Protocol Analyzers. Although this Course is taught with a Free Protocol Analyzer - The lessons taught are significantly relevant to learning how to use any Protocol Analyzer.

Course Requirements

For this course:

You need to start with a basic understanding of Networks and Protocols.

You also need to Download and Install Free software available on the Internet to your PC to complete the assignments and tests.

To help with learning more about protocols - a Network Associates Communications Protocol Poster and an Agilent Technologies Protocol Poster in PDF format is provided.

Course Goals

The goal for this class is to allow Network Professionals, Network Administrators or anyone who wants to start learning more about the traffic on their network connection and to use a Protocol Analyzer to troubleshoot and diagnose network problems.

Course Materials

All Materials for this course are Free! Software programs, and Reading material on the Internet.

Grading Policy

Total Grade will be on a scale from 1 to 100% 10% for each completed Assignment (5 assignments = 50% of your grade).
10% for each test (5 tests = 50% of your grade). Assignments will be graded on a scale from 1 to 10. Tests will be graded on a scale from 1 to 10. A passing Grade for this class will be 75% or greater.

Certificates will be issued for:
Certificate of Attendance - Visiting the class on 5 different days. Certificate of Merit - for completing all 5 assignments and lessons. Certificate of Academic exellence - for receiving a passing grade (75%) for the class.
Certificate of Class Participation - for posting at least 5 messages in the class discussion forum.

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Class Syllabus: Using a Protocol Analyzer

Course Description

Course Requirements

Course Goals

Course Materials

Grading Policy

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4. Introduction to MS Excel

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