Chapter 15

Networking, Network Devices, and Network Connections

This chapter describes the following major topics:

Overview of basic networking concepts: hostname, IPv4, network classes, subnetting, subnet mask, CIDR, protocol, TCP/UDP, well-known ports, ICMP, Ethernet address, IPv6, IPv4/IPv6 differences, consistent device naming, etc.

Change hostname of the system

Understand the concepts of network device and connection

Anatomy of a network connection ...

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