TCP/IP Network Administration, 3rd Edition

This complete guide to setting up and running a TCP/IP network is essential for network administrators, and invaluable for users of home systems that access the Internet. The book starts with the fundamentals — what protocols do and how they work, how addresses and routing are used to move data through the network, how to set up your network connection — and then covers, in detail, everything you need to know to exchange information via the Internet.

Included are discussions on advanced routing protocols (RIPv2, OSPF, and BGP) and the gated software package that implements them, a tutorial on configuring important network services — including DNS, Apache, sendmail, Samba, PPP, and DHCP — as well as expanded chapters on troubleshooting and security. TCP/IP Network Administration is also a command and syntax reference for important packages such as gated, pppd, named, dhcpd, and sendmail.

With coverage that includes Linux, Solaris, BSD, and System V TCP/IP implementations, the third edition contains:

• Overview of TCP/IP
• Delivering the data
• Network services
• Getting startedM
• Basic configuration
• Configuring the interface
• Configuring routing
• Configuring DNS
• Configuring network servers
• Configuring sendmail
• Configuring Apache
• Network security
• Troubleshooting
• Appendices include dip, ppd, and chat reference, a gated reference, a dhcpd reference, and a sendmail reference

This new edition includes ways of configuring Samba to provide file and print sharing on networks that integrate Unix and Windows, and a new chapter is dedicated to the important task of configuring the Apache web server. Coverage of network security now includes details on OpenSSH, stunnel, gpg, iptables, and the access control mechanism in xinetd. Plus, the book offers updated information about DNS, including details on BIND 8 and BIND 9, the role of classless IP addressing and network prefixes, and the changing role of registrars.

Without a doubt, TCP/IP Network Administration, 3rd Edition is a must-have for all network administrators and anyone who deals with a network that transmits data over the Internet.

This book will be indispensable to Unix system administrators. It describes how to set up and administer a network of Unix systems using the TCP/IP protocols, taking a thoroughly practical approach. Topics covered include basic system configuration, routing, common network applications, and many others.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Overview of TCP/IP
Chapter 2 Delivering the Data
Chapter 3 Network Services
Chapter 4 Getting Started
Chapter 5 Basic Configuration
Chapter 6 Configuring the Interface
Chapter 7 Configuring Routing
Chapter 8 Configuring DNS
Chapter 9 Local Network Services
Chapter 10 sendmail
Chapter 11 Configuring Apache
Chapter 12 Network Security
Chapter 13 Troubleshooting TCP/IP

A. PPP Tools
B. A gated Reference
C. A named Reference
D. A dhcpd Reference
E. A sendmail Reference
F. Solaris httpd.conf File
G. RFC Excerpts