Networking commands and
SSH
Type 📒 Lecture
Date @March 14, 2022
Lecture # 4
Lecture https://youtu.be/SxDIXtxR33c
URL
Notion https://21f1003586.notion.site/Networking-commands-and-SSH-
URL 9593fb49c2374246b525faff24f19091
Week
8
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Network & SSH
Accessing remote machines on command line
IPv4 address range
localhost
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127.0.0.0/8
Private network
Class A: 10.0.0.0/8
16,777,216
Class B: 172.16.0.0/12
1,048,576
Class C: 192.168.0.0/16
65,536
Public network
Ways to gain remote access
VPN access
SSH tunnelling
Remote desktop: x2go, rdp, pcoip
Desktop over browser: Apache Guacomole
Commercial, over internet: Teamviewer, AnyDesk, Zoho assist, ...
Some important ports
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Firewall
Ports open on my machine
Ports needed to be accessed on remote machine
Network routing over the port
Firewall controls at each hop
Protecting a server
SELinux
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Security Enhanced Linux mode available on Ubuntu too, apart from server grade
flavours like CentOS, Fedora, RHEL, SuSE Linux, etc.
Additional layer of access control on files to services
Role Based Access Control
Process sandboxing, least privilege access for subjects
Check using ls -lZ and ps -eZ
RBAC items:
user (unconfined_u)
role (object_r)
type (user_home_t)
level (s0)
Modes:
disabled
enforcing
permissive
Tools:
semanage
restorecon
SELinux is recommended for all publicly visible servers
Network tools
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High Performance Computing
Look at www.top500.org for statistics
Accessing a remote HPC machine is usually over SSH
Long durations jobs are submitted to a job scheduler for execution
Raw data if large needs to be processed remotely before being transferred to
your machine
Comfort with the command line is a must
Using 3rd party DNS lookup tool
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Tool used here: https://tools.keycdn.com/dig
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To do a reverse lookup
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