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LINUX Network Administrator's Guide

ISBN: 9780596005481 | 0596005482
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc
Pub. Date: 2/4/2005

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
The "Linux Network Administrator's Guide, Third Edition dispenses all the practical advice you need to join a network. Along with some hardware considerations, this highly acclaimed guide takes an in-depth look at all of the essential networking software that comes with the operating system--including basic infrastructure (TCP/IP, wireless networking, firewalling) and the most popular services on Linux systems. But as the follow-up to a classic, the third edition of the "Linux Network Administrator's Guide does more than just spruce up the basi... MORE
Prefaceix
Introduction to Networking
1(15)
History
1(1)
... MORE
TCP/IP Networks
2(9)
Linux Networking
11(2)
Maintaining Your System
13(3)
Issues of TCP/IP Networking
16(13)
Networking Interfaces
16(1)
IP Addresses
17(9)
The Internet Control Message Protocol
26(3)
Configuring the Serial Hardware
29(13)
Communications Software for Modem Links
29(1)
Accessing Serial Devices
30(4)
Using the Configuration Utilities
34(4)
Serial Devices and the login: Prompt
38(4)
Configuring TCP/IP Networking
42(24)
Understanding the /proc Filesystem
43(23)
Name Service and Configuration
66(30)
The Resolver Library
67(4)
How DNS Works
71(21)
Alternatives to BIND
92(4)
The Point-to-Point Protocol
96(23)
PPP on Linux
97(1)
Running PPPD
98(1)
Using Options Files
99(1)
Using chat to Automate Dialing
100(2)
IP Configuration Options
102(3)
Link Control Options
105(2)
General Security Considerations
107(1)
Authentication with PPP
108(4)
Debugging Your PPP Setup
112(1)
More Advanced PPP Configurations
112(4)
PPPoE Options in Linux
116(3)
TCP/IP Firewall
119(27)
Methods of Attack
120(2)
What Is a Firewall?
122(2)
What Is IP Filtering?
124(1)
Netfilter and iptables
125(2)
iptables Concepts
127(6)
Setting Up Linux for Firewalling
133(1)
Using iptables
134(2)
The iptables Subcommands
136(1)
Basic iptables Matches
137(4)
A Sample Firewall Configuration
141(3)
References
144(2)
IP Accounting
146(8)
Configuring the Kernel for IP Accounting
146(1)
Configuring IP Accounting
146(5)
Using IP Accounting Results
151(1)
Resetting the Counters
151(1)
Flushing the Rule Set
152(1)
Passive Collection of Accounting Data
152(2)
IP Masquerade and Network Address Translation
154(6)
Side Effects and Fringe Benefits
156(1)
Configuring the Kernel for IP Masquerade
157(1)
Configuring IP Masquerade
157(1)
Handling Nameserver Lookups
158(1)
More About Network Address Translation
159(1)
Important Network Features
160(19)
The inetd Super Server
160(3)
The tcpd Access Control Facility
163(1)
The xinetd Alternative
164(3)
The Services and Protocols Files
167(2)
Remote Procedure Call
169(1)
Configuring Remote Login and Execution
170(9)
Administration Issues with Electronic Mail
179(7)
What Is a Mail Message?
180(2)
How Is Mail Delivered?
182(1)
Email Addresses
183(1)
How Does Mail Routing Work?
184(1)
Mail Routing on the Internet
184(2)
sendmail
186(47)
Installing the sendmail Distribution
186(6)
sendmail Configuration Files
192(6)
sendmail.cf Configuration Language
198(5)
Creating a sendmail Configuration
203(7)
sendmail Databases
210(12)
Testing Your Configuration
222(5)
Running sendmail
227(1)
Tips and Tricks
228(3)
More Information
231(2)
Configuring IPv6 Networks
233(11)
The IPv4 Problem and Patchwork Solutions
234(1)
IPv6 as a Solution
235(9)
Configuring the Apache Web Server
244(14)
Apache HTTPD Server---An Introduction
244(1)
Configuring and Building Apache
244(3)
Configuration File Options
247(3)
VirtualHost Configuration Options
250(2)
Apache and OpenSSL
252(4)
Troubleshooting
256(2)
IMAP
258(8)
IMAP---An Introduction
258(5)
Cyrus IMAP
263(3)
Samba
266(12)
Samba---An Introduction
266(12)
OpenLDAP
278(16)
Understanding LDAP
278(2)
Obtaining OpenLDAP
280(14)
Wireless Networking
294(15)
History
294(1)
The Standards
295(1)
802.11b Security Concerns
296(13)
Appendix: Example Network: The Virtual Brewery309(2)
Index311

Tony Bautts is an independent security consultant who has worked with Fortune 500 companies in the US and Japan. He has spoken at security-related events for The Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) and has spoken and chaired events for the MIS Training Institute. Tony is the co-author of Hack Proofing Your Wireless Network, Nokia Network Solutions Handbook, and the Security Certification Handbook and has, additionally, served as technical reviewer for Implementing IPv6 on Cisco IOS by Syngress Publishing.

Terry Dawson is an amateur radio operator and long time Linux enthusiast. He is the author of a number of network related HOWTO documents for the Linux Documentation Project, co-author the 2nd edition of O'Reilly's Linux Network Administrators Guide and is an active participant in a number of other Linux projects. Terry has 15 years professional experience in telecommunications and is currently engaged in network management research in the Telstra Research Laboratories.

Gregor N. Purdy is engineering manager in the large account services group at Amazon.com. Before joining Amazon.com in 2003, Gregor worked for ten years as a consultant in high-end data warehousing, system integration, and prior art research in software and Internet patents. He has also contributed to a number of open source projects, including Perl core and extension modules, the Perl Shell, and the Parrot virtual machine for Perl 6.



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