Networking
VPN
- What are VPN basic messages (9 messages) using preshared key.
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Troubleshooting
- phase 1 Phase2 not coming up
- Traffic not passing
- Packet loss in VPN
TCP/IP and Protocols
- TCP handshake ---> Microsoft kb
- SSL Handshake ---> Microsoft kb
(Above TCP and SSL handshake is very very important)
- In NATTING, what is NAT, SNAT, DNAT, PAT eg. VIP
- What is loadbalancing and how is it done on application layer?
- What are the different types of DNS loadbalancing?
- BGP states/Attributes
- Switching states
- Study the TCP header, IP header (all fields)
- What is IP fragmentation?
- What is DNS Recursive, Iterative (Microsoft documents)
- Windows machine ---> The flow of resolving the domain name to ip address >
browser cache, host file, normal DNS
- what is Path MTU?
- Layer 2 and Layer 3 broadcast in DHCP (DORA)
- What is DORA process in DHCP?
- DNS records (Micrsoft site), alias/cname, SPF record, DNS TTL
- What is Cloud Computing?
- Subnetting. how is it done? Read basic examples
HTTP
- HTTP 1.0, 1.1 difference
- HTTP 1.1 - Persistent connection, HTTP Tunneling, host header, 100 continue
- Top 10 HTTP response codes
Proxy
- what is web proxy
- what is X forwarder, Y forwarder
Tools
- Traceroute (Windows and Linux)
- MTR (Traceroute + Ping) (Windows and Linux)
- ICMP codes
- Iperf, netstat, ipconfig, tools on networking
Scripting (Basic knowledge not in depth)
- Shell scripting
- SQL queries