|
Linux Home Networking |
|
LinuxHomeNetworking.com SiliconValleyCCIE.com |
|
|
| Cisco Topics |
If you like the site, please sign the guestbook!
Linux Home Networking PDF Topics
Adding Linux Users
Who Is The Super User?
How To Add Users
How To Delete Users
How To Tell The Groups To Which A User Belongs
How To Change Your Password
Using Sudo
What is sudo?
Download & Install The sudo Package
The visudo command
The /etc/sudoers File
How To Use sudo
Using syslog To Track All sudo Commands
Installing RPM Software
Where To Get Commonly Used RPMs
How to Easily Access CD RPMs With Automount
Getting RPMs Using Web Based FTP
Getting RPMs Using Command Line Anonymous FTP
How To Install The RPMs
How to Install Source RPMs
The Linux Boot Process
The RedHat Boot Sequence
Determining The Default Boot runlevel
Get A GUI Console Without Changing runlevels
Get A Basic Text Terminal Without Exiting The GUI
Switching runlevels on the fly
How To Set Which Programs Run At Each runlevel
Why Host Your Own Site?
Network Diagram
Alternatives To Home Web Hosting
Factors To Consider Before Hosting Yourself
How To Migrate From An External Provider
Introduction to Networking
What
Is TCP/IP?
What Is An IP Addresses?
What Is Localhost?
What Is A Subnet Mask?
How Many Addresses Do I Get With My Mask?
How Can I Figure Out My Broadcast Address?
What Is Duplex?
What Is A Hub?
What Is A Switch?
What Is A LAN?
What Is A Router?
What Is A Gateway?
What Is A Route?
What Is A Default Gateway?
What Is A NIC?
What Is A MAC Address?
What Is ARP?
What Is A Firewall?
What Is NAT?
What Is Port Forwarding With NAT?
What Is DHCP?
What Is DNS?
How Can I Check The IP Address For A Domain?
How Do I Get My Own DNS Domain Name?
What is FTP?
Where is Linux Help?
Troubleshooting Linux With Syslog
About
syslog
Activating Changes To The syslog Configuration File
How To View New Log Entries As They Happen
Logging Linux Syslog Messages to Another Linux Box
Syslog and Firewalls
Syslog Configuration & Cisco Devices
Logrotate
Linux Networking
How To Configure Your NIC's IP Address
How To Change Your Default Gateway
How Configure Two Gateways
How To Delete A Route
How To View Your Current Routing Table
How To Convert Your Linux Server Into A Router
Configuring Your /etc/hosts File
Simple Network Troubleshooting
How To See Your ARP Table
How To Use "Ping" To Test Network Connectivity
Using "traceroute" To Test Connectivity
Viewing Packet Flow With TCPdump
Linux Wireless Networking
Wireless Linux Compatible NICs
Linux-WLAN Preparation
Installing The Linux-WLAN Drivers
Post Installation Steps
Linux-WLAN Encryption For Security
Troubleshooting Your Wireless LAN
Linux Firewalls Using iptables
What
Is iptables?
Download And Install The Iptables Package
How To Get iptables Started
Packet Processing In iptables
Iptables Packet Flow Diagram
Processing For Packets Routed By The Firewall
Packet Processing For Data Received By The Firewall
Packet Processing For Data Sent By The Firewall
Targets And Jumps
Descriptions Of The Most Commonly Used Targets
Important Iptables Command Switch Operations
General Iptables Match Criteria
Common TCP and UDP Match Criteria
Common ICMP (Ping) Match Criteria
Common Match Extensions Criteria
Using User Defined Chains
Sample iptables Scripts
Basic Initialization
Allowing DNS Access To Your Firewall
Allowing WWW And SSH Access To Your Firewall
Allowing Your Firewall To Access The Internet
Allow Your Home Network To Access The FirewallIP Masquerade
Regular Masquerading (Many to One Network Address Translation)
Port Forwarding Type NAT
Static NATLogging & Troubleshooting
Telnet, TFTP and XINETD
Telnet
TFTP
Configuring a Linux FTP server
FTP Overview
Problems with FTP and firewalls
How To Download And Install The VSFTP Package
How To Get VSFTP Started
Testing To See If VSFTP Is Running
What Is Anonymous FTP?
The /etc/vsftpd.conf File
FTP Security Issues
Secure Remote Logins & File Copying
Using Secure Shell As A Replacement For Telnet
Testing To See If SSH Is Running
The etc/ssh/sshd_config File
Using SSH To Login To A Remote Machine
What You Should Expect To See When You Log In
Deactivating Telnet once SSH is installed
Using SCP as a more secure replacement for FTP
Configuring Samba
Download & Install Packages
How To Get SAMBA Started
Configuring SWAT
Samba & PC Firewall Software
How To Create A Samba PDC Administrator User
How to Configure a Samba PDC
How To Add Users To Your Samba Domain
A Note About Domain Groups And Samba
How To Delete Users From Your Samba Domain
Sharing Resources with Samba
Adding A Printer To A Samba PDC
Creating Group Shares in SAMBA
Windows Drive Sharing With Your SAMBA Server
Configuring DNS
What Is DNS?
What Is BIND?
When To Use A DNS Caching Name Server
When To Use A Regular DNS Server
How To Download & Install The BIND Packages
How To Get BIND Started
Configuring A Caching Name Server
Configuring A Regular Name Server
DHCP Considerations For DNS
Dynamic DNS
What Is DNS?
What Is Dynamic DNS?
Dynamic DNS And NAT Router/Firewalls
Dynamic DNS Prerequisites
Installing And Using ez-ipupdate
Installing And Using DDclient
Testing Your Dynamic DNS
Configuring The Apache Web Server
Download & Install The Apache Package
How To Get Apache Started
Configuring DNS For Apache
General Configuration Steps
File Permissions And Apache
Single IP Address - Two Sites
Apache Running On A Server Behind A Firewall
How To Protect Web Page Directories With Passwords
Issues When Upgrading To Apache 2.0
Monitoring Server Performance
SNMP
MRTG
Webalizer
Configuring Linux Mail
Configuring Sendmail
An Overview Of How Sendmail Works
Configuring DNS
Installing And Starting Sendmail
Restart Sendmail After Editing Your Configuration Files
The /var/log/maillog File
The /etc/mail/sendmail.mc File
The /etc/hosts File
The /etc/mail/relay-domains File
The /etc/mail/access File
The /etc/mail/local-host-names File
Which User Should Really Receive The Mail?
The /etc/mail/virtusertable file
The /etc/aliases File
Simple Mailing Lists Using Aliases
An Important Note About The /etc/aliases File
Sendmail Masquerading Explained
A Simple PERL Script To Help Stop SPAM
Configuring Your POP Mail Server
Installing Your POP Mail Server
Configuring Your POP Mail Server
How To Configure Your Windows Mail Programs
How to handle overlapping email addresses
Configuring A Linux DHCP Server
Download & Install The DHCP Package
The /etc/dhcp.conf File
Upgrading Your DHCP Server
How to get DHCP started
Modify Your Routes for DHCP on Linux Server
Configuring Linux clients to use DHCP
Error Found When Upgrading From Redhat 7.3 To 8.0
Configuring NTP
What is NTP?
Download & Install The NTP Package
The /etc/ntp.conf File
How To Get NTP Started
Determining If NTP Is Synchronized Properly
Configuring Cisco Devices To Use An NTP Server
Firewalls and NTP