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Configuring TCP/IP under Linux

Using TCP/IP under Red Hat 7.0

Tom Syroid (dwcomments@syroidmanor.com), Freelance author, Studio B Productions

Tom Syroid is a contract writer for Studio B Productions, a literary agency based in Indianapolis, IN, specializing in computer-oriented publications. His specialties include *NIX system security, Samba, Apache, and Web database applications based on PHP and MySQL. He has experience administering and maintaining a diverse range of operating systems including Linux (Red Hat, OpenLinux, Mandrake, Slackware, Gentoo), Windows (95, 98, NT, 2000, and XP), and AIX (4.3.3 and 5.1). He is also the co-author of Outlook 2000 in a Nutshell (O'Reilly & Associates) and OpenLinux Secrets (Hungry Minds). Tom lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with his wife and two children. Hobbies include breaking perfectly good computer installations and then figuring out how to fix them, along with gardening, reading, and building complex structures out of Legos with his kids. Contact Tom at dwcomments@syroidmanor.com.

Summary: Learn about the origins of TCP/IP, then move into how TCP/IP works -- including IP addresses, subnets, and routing. Then learn about the various network configuration files required by Linux®, how to initialize a network interface, and how to edit the system's routing table. The tutorial closes with a brief look at how to analyze your network and ensure that data gets to where it's supposed to go, without error.

Date: 30 Oct 2001
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (78 KB | 24 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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About this tutorial

This tutorial reviews the history of TCP/IP, the OSI model and its relationship to TCP/IP's design, IP addressing, subnetting, and routing -- all from a theoretical perspective. It then examines how a TCP/IP network is initialized under Red Hat 7.0 and which files do what. Next it covers how to configure a network interface, and how to designate a route between your local LAN and the "outside world". Finally it shows you the netstat program, and how to use it to examine the health of your network.

Prerequisites

This tutorial has no prerequisites.

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