Hour 12. Introduction to Networks
These days, it's hard to imagine a computer without a network to connect it to. There's only so much you can do with a machine that doesn't have access to the Internet or to other machines on its own local network. Word processing and image editing is fine in its own right, but a computer in this day and age isn't worth the desk space it takes up if you can't use it to read email, surf the Web, and share files between neighboring computers.
Fortunately, FreeBSD is one of those operating systems that was designed from the ground up for networking. As you will see in this hour and the next, everything in FreeBSD is designed under the assumption that the computer will be networked and accessible by multiple users ...
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