Syllabus

Introduction

• Introduction to the course

• Architecture of network devices

Software-based network processing

• Software packet filters

• Packet processing with libpcap/WinPcap (with source code example)

• Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF)

Routing

• Routing (theory)

• RIP (version 1, 2 and ng)

  • Captures and analysis of RIP traffic (auto-learning, optional)

• IGRP and EIGRP

• OSPF (version 2 and 3)

  • Captures and analysis of OSPF traffic (auto-learning)

• BGP

  • Examples of BGP routing outages (optional)

• Internet: peering and transit

Software-defined networks

• Software Defined Networks

• OpenFlow

• Networks Functions Virtualization

• Netconf, Restconf, YANG, OpenConfig

• Network Automation

Seminars

Slides are available on the POLITO teaching portal.

• To be scheduled

Exercises

• Routing protocols

• Software networking

Labs

• Getting started

  • Introduction to networking labs with GNS3

  • Basic IP configuration on Cisco routers

  • Basic IP routing configuration on Cisco routers

• Lab 0 (optional)

  • RIPv2 routing protocol

• Lab 1: OSPF

  • OSPF routing protocol (single area)

  • OSPF routing protocol (multiple areas)

• Lab 2: BGP routing protocol

• Lab 3: HTTP traffic processing

• Lab 4: Service chaining