Full course content for NET-201. The sidebar to the left lists every overview document, weekly module, and lab. Pick a starting point below or use the sidebar to jump anywhere.
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Overview
Weekly modules
- NET-201 Week 1 -- Routing I: OSPF Principles and Link-State Fundamentals
- NET-201 Week 2 -- Routing I: IS-IS, OSPF Multi-Area, and Convergence Measurement
- NET-201 Week 3 -- Routing II: BGP Path-Vector and AS Topology
- NET-201 Week 4 -- Routing II: BGP Attributes, Prefix Hijacking, and RPKI
- NET-201 Week 5 -- Switching: VLAN Trunking, STP, RSTP, and Link Aggregation
- NET-201 Week 6 -- TLS: Handshake Generations, Certificate Chains, and Traffic Interception
- NET-201 Week 7 -- DNS: DNSSEC, Chain of Trust, DoH, DoT, and Zone Authoring
- NET-201 Week 8 -- NAT and IPv6 Transition: Dual-Stack, 6to4, and NAT64
- NET-201 Week 9 -- SDN: OpenFlow, P4, and Intent-Based Networking
- NET-201 Week 10 -- NSM-Lite: Wireshark Deep-Dive, Suricata, and Zeek
- NET-201 Week 11 -- Performance: Bufferbloat, TCP Variants, and QUIC Transport
- NET-201 Week 12 -- Cloud Networking: VXLAN, EVPN, Overlays, and Containerlab Fabric
- NET-201 Week 13 -- Cross-Cut: RE-Track and PT-Track / SB6141 Thread
- NET-201 Week 14 -- Capstone Workshop: Enterprise Operational Playbook
Labs
- Lab 1: OSPF Multi-Area Topology and LSDB Convergence
- Lab 2: BGP Multi-AS Peering, Path Selection, and Sandboxed Prefix Hijack
- Lab 3: VLAN Trunking, STP Root Bridge Election, and RSTP
- Lab 4: TLS 1.3 Handshake Dissection and mitmproxy Interception
- Lab 5: DNSSEC Zone Authoring, Chain of Trust, and Validation Failure
- Lab 6: Dual-Stack and NAT64 / DNS64
- Lab 7: OpenFlow Mininet and Programmatic Flow Rule Installation
- Lab 8: Suricata Signature Authoring and Zeek Script-as-Pipeline
- Lab 9: SDN vs. OSPF Convergence Comparison
- Lab 10: Bufferbloat Measurement, FQ-CoDel, and TCP BBR
- Lab 11: VXLAN-EVPN Multi-Tenant Fabric in Containerlab
- Lab 12: Capstone -- Enterprise Operational Playbook Workshop