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A Practical Guide to UNIX for Mac OS X Users
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A Practical Guide to UNIX for Mac OS X Users

by Mark G. Sobell, Peter Seebach
December 2005
Intermediate to advanced
1056 pages
27h 9m
English
Pearson
Content preview from A Practical Guide to UNIX for Mac OS X Users

Network, continued

SLIP protocol, 393

sniff, 954

socket, 101

static IP address, 394

subnet, 397

address, 956

defined, 956

mask, 397, 956

number, 956

specifying, 453

switch, 386, 387, 945

TCP/IP protocol, 391

thicknet cable, 387

thinnet cable, 387

Time Protocol. See NTP

token ring, 958

topology, shared, 953

trace route, 406

transfer rate, 387

trusted hosts, 403

tunneling, 959, 960

twisted pair cable, 387

UDP, 391, 959

unicast, 394, 959

unicast vs. broadcast, 394

unshielded twisted pair cable, 387

user communication, 400

utilities, 384, 403

UTP cable, 387

virtual private, 385

VPN, 385, 960

WAN, 388

wide area. See WAN

Wi-Fi, 961

newfs utility, 449

newfs_hfs utility, 449

newfs_msdos utility, 449

NEWLINE key, 19, 269

News, Internet. See Netnews

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