Book description
Linux, a Unix-compatible operating system that runs on personal computers and larger servers, is valued above all for its networking strengths. The Linux Network Administrator's Guide spells out all the information needed for joining a network, whether it's a simple UUCP connection or a full LAN with a Linux system serving as a firewall, an NFS or NIS file server, and a mail and news hub. This book, which is one of the most successful to come from the Linux Documentation Project and remains freely distributable under its license, touches on all the essential networking software included with the operating system, plus some hardware considerations. Fully updated, the book now covers firewalls, including the use of ipchains and iptables (netfilter), masquerading, and accounting. Other new topics include Novell (NCP/IPX) support and INN (news administration). Original material on serial connections, UUCP, routing and DNS, mail and News, SLIP and PPP, NFS, and NIS has been thoroughly updated. Kernel options reflect the 2.2 kernel. However, some topics covered in other books (notably Samba and web server administration) are not in this book. Topics include:
Introduction to TCP/IP
Configuring network and serial hardware
Domain Name Service
Serial line communications using SLIP and PPP
NIS and NFS
Taylor UUCP
Administering electronic mail, including sendmail and Exim
Administering Netnews, including INN and several news readers
Firewalling using ipfwadm, ipchains, and iptables (netfilter)
Masquerading and accounting
IPX configuration for a Novell Netware network
Table of contents
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Linux Network Administrator’s Guide, 2nd Edition
- Preface
- 1. Introduction to Networking
- 2. Issues of TCP/IP Networking
- 3. Configuring the Networking Hardware
- 4. Configuring the Serial Hardware
- 5. Configuring TCP/IP Networking
- 6. Name Service and Resolver Configuration
- 7. Serial Line IP
- 8. The Point-to-Point Protocol
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9. TCP/IP Firewall
- Methods of Attack
- What Is a Firewall?
- What Is IP Filtering?
- Setting Up Linux for Firewalling
- Three Ways We Can Do Filtering
- Original IP Firewall (2.0 Kernels)
- IP Firewall Chains (2.2 Kernels)
- Netfilter and IP Tables (2.4 Kernels)
- TOS Bit Manipulation
- Testing a Firewall Configuration
- A Sample Firewall Configuration
- 10. IP Accounting
- 11. IP Masquerade and Network Address Translation
- 12. Important Network Features
- 13. The Network Information System
- 14. The Network File System
- 15. IPX and the NCP Filesystem
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16. Managing Taylor UUCP
- UUCP Transfers and Remote Execution
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UUCP Configuration Files
- A Gentle Introduction to Taylor UUCP
- What UUCP Needs to Know
- Site Naming
- Taylor Configuration Files
- General Configuration Options Using the config File
- How to Tell UUCP About Other Systems Using the sys File
- Identifying Available Devices Through the port File
- How to Dial a Number Using the dial File
- UUCP Over TCP
- Using a Direct Connection
- Controlling Access to UUCP Features
- Setting Up Your System for Dialing In
- UUCP Low-Level Protocols
- Troubleshooting
- Log Files and Debugging
- 17. Electronic Mail
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18. Sendmail
- Introduction to sendmail
- Installing sendmail
- Overview of Configuration Files
- The sendmail.cf and sendmail.mc Files
- Generating the sendmail.cf File
- Interpreting and Writing Rewrite Rules
- Configuring sendmail Options
- Some Useful sendmail Configurations
- Testing Your Configuration
- Running sendmail
- Tips and Tricks
- 19. Getting Exim Up and Running
- 20. Netnews
- 21. C News
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22. NNTP and the nntpd Daemon
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The NNTP Protocol
- Connecting to the News Server
- Pushing a News Article onto a Server
- Changing to NNRP Reader Mode
- Listing Available Groups
- Listing Active Groups
- Posting an Article
- Listing New Articles
- Selecting a Group on Which to Operate
- Listing Articles in a Group
- Retrieving an Article Header Only
- Retrieving an Article Body Only
- Reading an Article from a Group
- Installing the NNTP Server
- Restricting NNTP Access
- NNTP Authorization
- nntpd Interaction with C News
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The NNTP Protocol
- 23. Internet News
- 24. Newsreader Configuration
- A. Example Network: The Virtual Brewery
- B. Useful Cable Configurations
- C. Linux Network Administrator’s Guide, Second Edition Copyright Information
- D. SAGE: The System Administrators Guild
- Index
- Colophon
Product information
- Title: Linux Network Administrator's Guide, Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2000
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781565924000
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