FI:P077 UNIX -- Programming and System

P077 UNIX -- Programming and System Management II

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 1997

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Guaranteed by

Contact Person: doc. Ing. Michal Brandejs, CSc.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Syllabus

System of files and directories. Users and groups. Other system tables.
Basic system programs: init and the start of the system, syslogd, update.
Printer subsystem.
Services and configuration of the UUCP.
TCP/IP network basics: IP, ARP/RARP, ICMP, UDP and TCP layers; packet formats; principles of TCP/IP operation.
Network programming (BSD socket API): Socket, socket types; system calls for socket manipulation; connected and unconnected sockets; system tables and function for reading them; examples of applications.
Low-level network administration: Giving an address to the interface; routing table; static and dynamic routing.
TCP/IP over ethernet: ARP/RARP configuration; proxy ARP.
Serial communication basics: Synchrohous and asynchronous communication; modems; point-to-point protocol (PPP); SLIP.
DNS and address translation; Inet-daemon and the TCP-wrapper; services run from the inetd.
Electronic mail: Principles of operation; simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP); sendmail.
WWW: Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), http-daemon, national language problems.
Network security and firewalls: Packet filtering; application gateways; network topology; virtual private networks; secure shell.

Language of instruction

Czech

Teacher's information

http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/p077/

The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002.