I am currently taking this course and indeed it is an excellent course. I am having problem completing exercise 23 & final challenge. If any who has taken this course would like to share information regarding these two exercises, I have enclosed my email below.

Jack

busana100@yahoo.com

The Prereq's for the course include:

•The student must have a solid understanding of Network Administration and TCP/IP, and a reasonable level of familiarity with Linux, in order to complete the course.
• A modern PC, with the capability of displaying full screen video and sound.
• A fast Internet connection to view or download the Videos.
• A fast Internet connection to connect to the Offensive Security Labs over VPN.

And of course I'm quoting that directly out of the Offensive Security 101 v2 Course Description that can be found below:
http://offensive-security.com/documentation/offensive-security.pdf

Judging from your experiance, I bet you'd do fine.

For the offensive-security 101 v2 standard price is $550.
http://offensive-security.com/training.php
Your plan to study more in tcp/ip is definitely a good idea considering if you look around these forums on where people ask "where should I start?", etc, everyone does recommend getting a good grasp on Tcp/Ip.

I think you shouldn't have any problems. But if I were you I would at least read the basics on shell and python scripting prior to taking the course. It will help you save some time for researching other topics that you may need during your studies in order to complete an exercise or just fully understand a subject given in the course.

Here, you could start by heading to these links:

http://linuxcommand.org/
http://openbookproject.net//thinkCSpy/

Chan,

Not sure how much python is required, luckily I have a friend who is a python programmer so I guess I'll be on the phone to him a fair bit !!

To be honest the scripting is the only thing that has me spooked, I have all the network stuff covered...

Maybe we'll hook up on the IRC channel ?

Best

WS

PS Love the 100m Swimming Cert 

yeah i have heard and seen that this certification is on constant self updates and more than any other course its exam doesnt mostly depend on ur course where but its more ur practically how are u going to defend and hunt down ur hunters...

me yet to get my hands on OSCP
i feel J for my friends who have finished this such wonderfull certs

6-8 months practice with the tools? Sounds like you'll be damn prepared. You should definitely start looking into the tools on Back Track 4 as well because in that time my guess is that v4 should be stable and they may have out the Off Sec 101 v3 class that's utilizing Back Track 4 as an attack box. If I were you Xen, I wouldn't underestimate yourself, I don't know your schedule but you are given that 30 day lab *or 60 day* access which is a perfect place to practice and gets that hands on training!

Hey guys any idea if they will be using BT4 on the course now?