. If you
already know about the way IP-routing works, and how address resolution
is performed, you might want to skip this chapter.
Chapter- deals with the very basic configuration issues,
such as building a kernel and setting up your Ethernet board.
The configuration of your serial ports is covered in a separate
chapter, because the discussion does not apply to TCP/IP networking
only, but is also relevant for UUCP.
Chapter- helps you to set up your machine for TCP/IP
networking. It contains installation hints for stand-alone hosts with
only loopback enabled, and hosts connected to an Ethernet. It will also
introduce you to a few useful tools you can use to test and debug your
setup. The next chapter discusses how to configure hostname
resolution, and explains how to set up a name server.
This is followed by two chapters featuring the configuration and use of
SLIP and PPP, respectively. Chapter explains how to establish
SLIP connections, and gives a detailed reference of dip, a
tool that allows you to automate most of the necessary steps.
Chapter- covers PPP and pppd, the PPP daemon you
need for this.
Chapter gives a short introduction to setting up some of the
most important network applications, such as rlogin, rcp,
etc, in chapter-. This also covers how services are managed
by the inetd super, and how you may restrict certain
security-relevant services to a set of trusted hosts.
The next two chapters discuss NIS, the Network Information System, and NFS, the Network File System. NIS is a useful tool to distribute administrative information such as user passwords in a local area network. NFS allows you to share file systems between several hosts in your network.
Chapter gives you an extensive introduction to the
administration of Taylor UUCP, a free implementation of the UUCP suite.
The remainder of the book is taken up by a detailed tour of electronic
mail and Usenet News. Chapter- introduces you to the central
concepts of electronic mail, like what a mail address looks like, and
how the mail handling system manages to get your message to the
recipient.
Chapters- and- each cover the setup of
smail and sendmail, two mail transport agents you can use
for . This book explains both of them, because smail is
easier to install for the beginner, while sendmail is more
flexible.
Chapters- and- explain the way news are managed in
Usenet, and how you install and use C-news, a popular software package
for managing Usenet news. Chapter- briefly covers how to set
up an NNTP daemon to provide news reading access for your local network.
Chapter- finally shows you how to configure and
maintain various newsreaders.
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