On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 11:27:59AM -0500, Dru wrote:
"
" Hi Eugene,
"
" Sorry to take so long to get back to you...
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" >2) At section 1 you wrote "As of this writing, there are no
" >official study materials or recommended training institutions..."
" >Currently I working under the course based on BSDA. Our company
" >(a-sys.ru, this is traning center in Moscow, russia) are plened
" >to open this course in september. May I put link to our company
" >into this translation? May I put link to draft of this course In
" >my translation?
"
"
" I'm still waiting for an answer on this one as it will set a precedent,
" so please hold off including the link for now.
"
" We should also talk about your course and if you want it to be included in
" the official curriculum which is yet to be created.
"
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"
" Dru
So Ok, while you don't permit me to include link, I don't do
this. But it is desirable to me to mark my course like "official
BSDA course", and I'm glad to answer to any your questions about
my work.
Currently, I'm writing (of course in russian) answers to BSDA
exam objectives. This is not brief answers, and I working slowly.
Now I already wrote answers to 7 chapter and a half of 6 chapter.
Of course I can't call this work "the course" but this is
something like a "crib" (sorry my english, I don't shure that a
crib is a proper word), very detailed but just a crib. For
example, there are no question in BSDA exam objectives that ask
about how to open TCP connection, just one mention of "three way
handshaking". So, I don't write in my work about TCP/IP as deep
as Richard Stevens. But when I writing about netstat(1), I
writing about states (ESTABLISHED, TIME_WAIT etc.) and illustrate
my narration whith some script (for example to count open http
connection per IP on the web-server: netstat -n | awk
'/192\.168\.0\.1\.80 .*ESTABLISHED/{print $5}' | sed
's/\.[0-9]*$//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -k1,1).
Now I teach my students to Linux and I do this in three week (40
hours in week)
First week I teach to base Unix skills: bash, pipes (grep, sed,
awk); bootstrap: BIOS POST, lilo, SystemV initialisation
(/etc/inittab); organisation of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow,
permissions; network configuration (ifconfig(8), ip(8), route,
netstat and theory about this); services; cron; syslog; theory
about system calls fork and exec; some others.
Main goal of the first week is to prepare students to
understanding a second week.
Second week I teach to base administration skills: user
management, resource limitation; again cron and syslog; more
seriouse programming in bash; Sendmail; Bind; squid; iptables;
nfs.
Third week I teach to security: openssl, ssh, sudo, securelevels
and others.
So, all of this about Linux, but I belive I can do something like
this on BSDA platform. For example:
1) I'll transform materials of the first week to teach both of
Linux and BSDA students: not teach to bash, but sh; tell about
both initialisation SystemV and BSD (both of Linux and BSD
students take a benefit if I give him wide knowledge).
2) Second and Third week Linux and BSDA students should learn
separately. I think to teach BSDA students to Sendmail; DNS;
OpenBSD pf, ipfw; and network skills at the second week; and the
security and disk management in the third.
If this course will be full? Of course no. Like you wrote, BSDA
is a practise exam. Moreover, I think nobody can explain full
BSDA course in three or four weeks (perhaps I'm wrong?). But I
belive this course should help students who are "not in theme" to
understand HOW TO LEARN MORE and help him to understand
cause-and-effect relations. This is a main goal.
--
Sensory yours, Eugene Minkovskii
Сенсорно ваш, Евгений Миньковский
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