LPIC I Exam Cram™ 2: Linux Professional Institute Certification Exams 101 and 102

Chapter 17. Basic Networking

Terms you’ll need to understand:

✓	Broadcast address
✓	DHCP
✓	IP (Internet Protocol)
✓	Network address
✓	Network interface
✓	Network mask
✓	PPP
✓	Routing table

Techniques you’ll need to master:

✓	Understanding basic networking
✓	Identifying hosts on a network
✓	Determining addresses
✓	Viewing, changing, and verifying interface configurations
✓	Configuring IPs manually or statically
✓	Configuring gateway addresses
✓	Viewing, changing, or correcting routing table entries
✓	Troubleshooting network problems
✓	Configuring a PPP client
✓	Initializing and connecting via a PPP link

Conceptual Overview of Networking

An Internet Protocol (IP) is a unique address or locator for a host on a network or on the Internet. All machines and internetworking devices that communicate ...