Module 1: Linux  Overview --------- 1 Month

1. Installation
2. System Initialization and Services
3. Filesystem management
4. Network Configuration
5. RPM
6. User Administration
7. Command Line Filesystem Browsing
8. Users, Groups and Permissions
9. Vi Editor
10. Linux Filesystem
11. Bash shell Scripting
12. Basic Networking Clients
13. DNS Service
14. Electronic Mail Services
15. HTTP Service

Module 2: System and Network Security  ----------- 10 Days

1. Security Concerns and Policy
2. System Monitoring
3. Securing Networks
4. Securing Services
5. Troubleshooting

Module 3: Bandwidth Management and Optimization -------- 15 days

1.  Introduction

2. Opensource Bandwidth Management Solutions

3. Squid – HTTP/FTP Proxy

4. ISC Bind (named)

5. DJBDNS

6. Dante – SOCKS

7. Traffic Shaper (tc) Queues and Queuing Disciplines explainedSimple, classless Queuing Disciplines

8. Classful Queuing Disciplines

9. BWM Tools

10. IPTables

11. Extensions to iptables: Matches

12. Extensions to iptables: Targets

13. Layer-7 Traffic Classification

14. Bridging

15. Using BWM Tools

16. Installing BWM Tools

17. BWM Tools Utilities

18. Configuring BWM Tools

19. Integrating BWM Tools with your system

20. Graphing

Module 4: Project  ----------- 5 Days