Networking-FAQ

Beginner's Guide to TCP/IP Networking and

Networking FAQ for

NetBSD/amiga

January 11th, 1997

• 1 Preface
  • 1.1 Some warm words
  • 1.2 Disclaimer
  • 1.3 About the author
• 2 Theory
  • 2.1 Protocols supported by NetBSD
    • 2.1.1 IP over serial lines
  • 2.2 TCP/IP address format
  • 2.3 Subnetting and Routing
  • 2.4 Name service concepts
    • 2.4.1 `/etc/hosts'
    • 2.4.2 The Domain Name Service (DNS)
    • 2.4.3 Network Information Service (NIS) / Yellow Pages (YP)
• 3 Practice - Essential setup
  • 3.1 Requirements
    • 3.1.1 Hardware
      • 3.1.1.1 Ethernet
      • 3.1.1.2 Arcnet
      • 3.1.1.3 Serial line
    • 3.1.2 Kernel-requirements
    • 3.1.3 Addresses: IP, Broadcast, Netmask, ...
  • 3.2 Configuring the interface
    • 3.2.1 Configuring your ethernet-board
    • 3.2.2 Configuring your arcnet-board
    • 3.2.3 Setting up serial protocols
      • 3.2.3.1 Manual PPP setup
      • 3.2.3.2 Easy PPP setup with chat
      • 3.2.3.3 Manual SLIP setup
      • 3.2.3.4 Easy SLIP setup using bsddip
      • 3.2.3.5 term, slirp and friends
  • 3.3 Routing
  • 3.4 Translating names to IP-numbers
    • 3.4.1 `/etc/hosts'
    • 3.4.2 Domain Name Service (DNS)
    • 3.4.3 Network Information Service (NIS)
  • 3.5 How to use the above on `/etc/*'?
    • 3.5.1 `/etc/netstart'
    • 3.5.2 `/etc/rc'
    • 3.5.3 `/etc/rc.local'
• 4 Advanced features and how to set them up
  • 4.1 Anonymous FTP server
  • 4.2 Network File System (NFS)
    • 4.2.1 Mounting remote filesystems
    • 4.2.2 Exporting filesystems
  • 4.3 Berkeley r-tools
    • 4.3.1 Prerequirements & Security
  • 4.4 X11
  • 4.5 Domain Name Server (DNS)
  • 4.6 Mail
  • 4.7 Remote Printing
  • 4.8 Setting up `/net' with amd
    • 4.8.1 Introduction
    • 4.8.2 Actual setup
  • 4.9 Setting up the system as NIS client
• 5 FAQs
  • 5.1 How do I set up networking?
  • 5.2 I've choosen two IP-numbers, 1.1.1.1 and 2.2.2.2, but nothing works!
  • 5.3 The system hangs when going into multiuser-mode
  • 5.4 timed and routed report some errors. Should I comment them out, too?
  • 5.5 xhost says "must be on local host", but I'm already there!
  • 5.6 ifconfig doesn't init my point-to-point-devices (SLIP/PPP) right
  • 5.7 What's the Major and Minor device numbers for the le0 device?
  • 5.8 How can I encrypt my telnet/rlogin session?
  • 5.9 Is there some software for building a WWW-Server?
  • 5.10 Is there some software for building a Web-Proxy?
  • 5.11 Is there some software for building a Firewall?
  • 5.12 (How) can I do IP-masquerading?
  • 5.13 What are these 'silo overflows' when using the modem?
  • 5.14 What is proxy-arp, how do I use it?
• B Abbreviations
• C References

This document was generated on 12 January 1997 using the texi2html translator version 1.45.