Comp150NET Lecture and Reading Schedule

Spring 2004

This is a very ambitious schedule and it's doubtful that we'll be completely faithful to it, but changes will be made during the term as the course progresses. This should, however, give a really good idea of what the course is about and where we're going.

I reserve the right to react to the volatility of the subject by changing lectures and sequence to discuss cutting-edge topics. As such, lectures aren't "part of the course" until I've given them.

Lecture notes are continually under review and update and changes will be posted to these pages before each lecture. You cannot assume that a page of notes is permanent until after it is discussed in class. You may certainly, however, read rough notes ahead of time in order to better understand lectures.

Lecture and Reading Schedule

The Basics

1. RTFM(Burgess Chapter 1, Frisch Chapter 1)
2. Crash Course in Operating Systems(Burgess Chapter 1, Frisch Chapter 2)
3. Users, groups, and protection rackets(Burgess Chapter 5)

Advanced UNIX Use

4. Out of the shell(Frisch Chapter 2)
5. Swiss army chainsaws(Frisch Chapter 3)
6. Paying in Installations(Burgess Appendix B)
7. Up the long ladder(Burgess Appendix B)
8. Due processes(Burgess Chapter 2)

System Administration

9. Got root?(man df, man mount, man automount, Burgess Chapter 4)
10. Networks, Packets, and Layers(Burgess Chapters 2-3, Frisch Chapter 5)
11. User-Mode Linux Networking(http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net)
12. Givin' you a number...(Burgess Chapter 10)
13. ...and takin' way your name(Burgess Chapter 9)
14. Root's shell games(man sh)

Network Administration

15. Integrity(Burgess Chapter 7)
16. Convergence(Burgess Chapter 6)
17. The problem of Identity(Burgess Chapter 5)
18. Being a generalist(Burgess Chapter 8)
19. Onion Peeling
20. Threats(Burgess Chapter 11)
21. Security (Burgess Chapter 11)

The Practice

22. Dependencies(Limoncelli and Hogan Chapter 1)
23. Limiting and Monitoring(Limoncelli and Hogan Chapter 24)

Lectures after this (moving) marker are completed for this term and can be printed for reference.

Old Lectures (left in for alumni)

24. Introduction(Frisch Chapter 1)
25. Files, Directories, Protections, Processes(Frisch Chapter 2)
26. The User Environment(Frisch Chapter 4)
27. The Administrative Environment(Frisch Chapters 9, 10)
28. Our Lab
29. Network Layers(Frisch Chapter 13, Hunt Chapter 1)
30. Network Addressing(Hunt Chapters 2, 6, 7)
31. Network Naming(Hunt Chapter 3)
32. Bootstrapping(Frisch Chapter 4)
33. Installing software
34. Compilation Metatools
35. Revision Control
36. File Distribution(Frisch Chapter 8)
37. Quiz 1 review
38. Service dependencies(Hunt Chapters 8-9)
39. Network services(Hunt Chapters 8-9)
40. Security(Frisch Chapter 6)
41. Static Intrusion Detection
42. One Time Passwords
43. Privilege Broking
44. Filtering(Hunt Chapter 12)
45. Firewall Tools
46. Firewall Design(Frisch Chapter 10)
47. Troubleshooting(Hunt Chapter 11)
48. Quiz 2 review
49. Quiz 2 answers
50. Final Exam Review
51. Extra Practice Quiz 1
52. Extra Practice Quiz 2

Essential References

People have asked me how I make up these lectures. These books (or their predecessors) were utilized in making up lectures for this course. To learn much more, see them!

Networking

• Ethernet, the Definitive Guide
• Internet Core Protocols: The Definitive Guide
• Managing IP Networks with Cisco Routers

  Network Services

• DNS and Bind
• Managing NFS and NIS
• Sendmail: the definitive guide

  Security

• Practical UNIX and Internet Security
• Web Security and Commerce
• Building Internet Firewalls
• Apache: the definitive guide

  Software Practices and Portability

• Managing Projects with Make
• Software Portability with Imake
• Applying RCS and SCCS
• 4.4BSD Programmer's Supplementary Documents