Network Administration with FreeBSD 7 Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: System Configuration—Disks
Chapter 2: System Configuration—Keeping it Updated
Chapter 3: System Configuration—Software Package Management
Chapter 4: System Configuration—System Management
Chapter 5: System Configuration—Jails
Chapter 6: System Configuration—Tuning Performance
Chapter 7: Network Configuration—Basics
Chapter 8: Network Configuration—Tunneling
Chapter 9: Network Configuration—PPP
Chapter 10: Network Configuration—Routing and Bridging
Chapter 11: Network Configuration—IPv6
Chapter 12: Network Configuration—Firewalls
Chapter 13: Network Services—Internet Servers
Chapter 14: Network Services—Local Network Services

• 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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