The Beginner’s Toolbox: Mastering Linux Networking

Speaker: Aryan Pandey

Type: Talk

Room: Lecture Hall 11

Time: Mar 15 (Sun): 14:30

Duration: 0:20

Who is your audience?

The people who are new to linux, or networking or both.

What will you cover?

An Introduction to networking commands in linux, get basics

  • how to easily setup VM to play with networking, without worrying anything. (mostly on aws ec2 t3.micro (free tier vm), but also try to cover qemu VM too, so within one to two commands they can play/follow along in the session)
  • like how ICMP packets ping works
  • how to see your ip, ifconfig/ip command. and whats the difference between private and public ip, and various interfaces.
  • how to use ss -tulpn to find which process owns a port.
  • how to use dig and whois commands for domians
  • how to stop typing password forever (using ssh-keygen and ssh-copy-id)
  • scp command to remotely copy
  • how to use tcpdump basics
  • how to do port forwarding and reverse port forwarding, and Dynamic Port Forwarding
  • share some online content about linux networking, like cheat sheets.

What will they get out of it?

Audience will have more confidence in networking, enjoy exploring stuff, and many topics will help them any multi domains as this basic are used everywhere, they can increase security using a lot of commands and all.