Network Administration with FreeBSD 7 Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: System Configuration—Disks
• Partition Layout and Sizes
• Swap
• Adding More Swap Space
• Swap Encryption
• Softupdates
• Snapshots
• Quotas
• Assigning Quotas
• File System Backup
• Dump and Restore
• The tar, cpio, and pax Utilities
• Snapshots
• RAID-GEOM Framework
• RAID0—Striping
• RAID1—Mirroring
• Disk Concatenation
• Summary

• Chapter 2: System Configuration—Keeping it Updated
• CVSup—Synchronizing the Source Code
• Tracking –STABLE
• Tracking –CURRENT
• Ports Collection
• Tracking Ports
• Portsnap
• Security Advisories
• VuXML—Vulnerability Database
• CVS Branch Tag
• Customizing and Rebuilding Kernel
• Rebuilding World
• Binary Update
• Recovering from a Dead Kernel
• Summary

• Chapter 3: System Configuration—Software Package Management
• Ports and Packages
• The Legacy Method
• Software Directories
• Packages
• Ports
• Package Management Tools
• Portupgrade
• portinstall
• pkg_deinstall
• portversion
• pkg_which
• portsclean
• Portmaster
• Summary

• Chapter 4: System Configuration—System Management
• Process Management and Control
• Processes and Daemons
• Getting Information about Running Processes—ps, top, and pgrep
• Sending Signals to Running Processes—kill, killall, and pkill
• Prioritizing Running Processes—nice and renice
• Resource Management and Control
• System Resource Monitoring Tools—vmstat, iostat, pstat, and systat
• Process Accounting
• Summary

• Chapter 5: System Configuration—Jails
• Concept
• Introduction
• Setting Up a Jail
• Configuring the Host System
• Starting the Jail
• Automatic Startup
• Shutting Down Jails
• Managing Jails
• Jail Security
• Jail Limitations
• Summary

• Chapter 6: System Configuration—Tuning Performance
• Tweaking Kernel Variables using SYSCTL
• Kernel
• SMP
• Disk
• File limits
• I/O Performance
• RAID
• Network
• TCP Delayed ACK
• RFC 1323 Extensions
• TCP Listen Queue Size
• TCP Buffer Space
• Network Interface Polling
• The /etc/make.conf file
• CPUTYPE
• CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS
• The /boot/loader.conf file
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Network Configuration—Basics
• Ifconfig Utility
• Configuring IP Address
• Configuring Layer2 Address
• Configuring IPX
• Configuring AppleTalk
• Configuring Secondary (alias) IP Addresses
• Configuring Media Options
• Configuring VLANs
• Advanced ifconfig Options
• Hardware Offloading
• Promiscuous Mode
• MTU
• ARP
• Static ARP
• Monitor Mode
• Configuring Fast EtherChannel
• Default Routing
• Name Resolution
• Network Testing Tools
• Ping
• Traceroute
• Sockstat
• netstat
• ARP
• Tcpdump
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Network Configuration—Tunneling
• Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) protocol
• IPSEC
• Operating Modes
• Tunnel Mode
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Network Configuration—PPP
• Setting up PPP Client
• Setting up PPP Server
• Setting up PPPoE Client
• Setting up PPPoE Server
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Network Configuration—Routing and Bridging
• Basic Routing—IP Forwarding
• Static Routing
• routed and route6d
• Running OSPF—OpenOSPFD
• Running BGP—OpenBGPD
• Bridging
• Filtering Bridges
• Proxy ARP
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Network Configuration—IPv6
• IPv6 Facts
• Fact One—Addressing
• Fact Two—Address Types
• Fact Three—ARP
• Fact Four—Interface Configuration
• Using IPv6
• Configuring Interfaces
• Routing IPv6
• RIP6
• Multicast Routing
• Tunneling
• GIF Tunneling
• Summary

• Chapter 12: Network Configuration—Firewalls
• Packet Filtering with IPFW
• Basic Configuration
• Ruleset Templates
• Customized Rulesets
• Logging
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Traffic Shaping
• Packet Filtering with PF
• PF Configuration Syntax
• Controlling PF
• Network Address Translation using PF and IPFW
• Summary

• Chapter 13: Network Services—Internet Servers
• inetd Daemon
• tcpd
• SSH
• Running a Command Remotely
• SSH Keys
• SSH Authentication Agent
• SSH Tunneling or Port Forwarding
• NTP
• Syncing
• NTP Server
• DNS
• BIND software
• Operating Modes
• Forwarding/Caching DNS Server
• Authoritative
• Monitoring
• Optimizations
• FTP
• Anonymous FTP Server
• Mail
• Sendmail
• Postfix
• Web
• Apache
• Virtual Hosts
• Alternative HTTP Servers
• Proxy
• Summary

• Chapter 14: Network Services—Local Network Services
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
• dhclient
• ISC DHCPD
• DHCPD Configuration
• Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
• Network File System (NFS)
• Server
• Client
• NFS Locking
• Server Message Block (SMB) or CIFS
• SMB Client
• SMB Server
• Authentication
• Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT)
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
• bsnmpd
• NET-SNMP
• Client Tools
• Printing
• lpd—Print Spooler Daemon
• Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS)
• Network Information System (NIS)
• NIS Server
• Initializing NIS Server
• Summary
• Index
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