December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
202 pages
8h 29m
English
INET — TCP/IP networking
These are the protocols used on the Internet and on most local Ethernets. It is highly recommended that you say yes here, since some programs (e.g. the X Window System) use TCP/IP even if your machine is not connected to any other computer. They use the so-called loopback device, which this option sets up. It will enlarge your kernel by about 144 KB.
For an excellent introduction to Linux networking, please read the Linux Networking HOWTO, available from http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto.
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