Linux Network Administrator's Guide, 2nd Edition

By Olaf Kirch & Terry Dawson

Linux Network Administrator's Guide, one of the most successful books to come from the Linux Documentation Project, touches on all the essential networking software included with the operating system, plus some hardware considerations. Fully updated, this impressive, comprehensive introduction to networking on Linux now covers firewalls, including the use of ipchains and iptables (netfilter), masquerading, and accounting. Other new topics include Novell (NCP/IPX) support and INN (news administration). Original material on serial connections, UUCP, routing and DNS, mail and News, SLIP and PPP, NFS, and NIS has been thoroughly updated. Kernel options reflect the 2.2 kernel. However, some topics covered in other books (notably Samba and web server administration) are not in this book.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Networking
Chapter 2: Issues of TCP/IP Networking
Chapter 3: Configuring the Networking Hardware
Chapter 4: Configuring the Serial Hardware
Chapter 5: Configuring TCP/IP Networking
Chapter 6: Name Service and Resolver Configuration
Chapter 7: Serial Line IP
Chapter 8: The Point-to-Point Protocol
Chapter 9: TCP/IP Firewall
Chapter 10: IP Accounting
Chapter 11: IP Masquerade and Network Address Translation
Chapter 12: Important Network Features
Chapter 13: The Network Information System
Chapter 14: The Network File System
Chapter 15: IPX and the NCP Filesystem
Chapter 16: Managing Taylor UUCP
Chapter 17: Electronic Mail
Chapter 18: Sendmail
Chapter 19: Getting Exim Up and Running
Chapter 20: Netnews
Chapter 21: C News
Chapter 22: NNTP and the nntpd Daemon
Chapter 23: Internet News
Chapter 24: Newsreader Configuration
Appendix A: Example Network: The Virtual Brewery
Appendix B: Useful Cable Configurations
Appendix C: Copyright Information
Appendix D: SAGE: The System Administrators Guild
Index