Classes

I offer the following classes to be taught at your site or a site arranged for that purpose. The cost is $2000 per day for a maximum of 15 students. For larger groups please contact me. A single copy of the lecture notes are provided with the class and you must make your own copies for distribution before the class begins.

Networking from the Bottom Up

The following classes cover the major parts of a real, working, network stack, starting from the lowest layers and finishing at the user/kernel boundary of the operating system.

Device Drivers (Half Day)

A complete class on networking device drivers using the Intel Gigabit Ethernet (igb) driver as an example.

General Classes

Various Security Classes

A full suite of classes from general motivation on security concerns all the way down to fail safe programming techniques.

Introduction to Socket Programming (1 Day)

This class covers all of the basics for writing programs that work with the sockets API. Client/server applications using both the reliable (TCP) and unreliable (UDP) protocols are covered in detail, including several code walk throughs of working software. This class covers both IPv4 and IPv6.

Deploying and Debugging DHCP (1 Day)

This offering is intended for people who must deploy and manage IP networks using the DHCP protocol. It uses real world examples to give the student the knowledge and tools to work with and debug the problems that arise in the day to day use of DHCP in any size of network deployment.