Portions

  • Basics of Networking
  • Traversal of a packet in the Linux kernel
  • Flooding attack - DoS/DDoS attack
  • SYN flooding and its mechansims
  • SYN cookies - prevention
  • Firewalls - Stateless and Stateful
  • Netfilter architecture (linux)
  • IPTables - tables, chains, rules
  • IP fragmentation
  • functionality
  • fragmentation attacks - ping of death, teardrop
  • Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
  • ARP functionality
  • attack vector