The following concepts are covered in this course:

1. LAN Concepts (benefits of a LAN, TCP/IP uses, Peer-to-Peer)
2. Understanding Ethernet concepts (What an Ethernet address is, the parts of an Ethernet frame, the arp, netstat, and snoop commands, and the purpose of CSMA/CD).
3. Routing and subnet concepts (Differences between IP, Ethernet, broadcast address, define datagrams, fragmentation, broadcast address, how routing works on a Solaris server, and subnet masking) 
4. DHCP
5. IPV6
6. DNS
7. NIS
8. Jumpstart - what it is, and how and why you would use it.