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Building, securing, and maintaining networks with the FreeBSD operating system
- Set up and manage networking on FreeBSD
- Virtualization with FreeBSD Jails, IPFW and PF
- Configure interfaces, protocols, and routing
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Table of Contents
Language English
Paperback 280 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date
April 2008
ISBN 1847192645
ISBN 13 978-1-847192-64-6
Author(s)
Babak Farrokhi
Topics and Technologies
Open Source
The book is a guide to Network admins who are interested in extracting full potential of FreeBSD. Security—one of everlasting concerns in the IT industry—can be tackled very effectively in FreeBSD. How do you do it? Read the book and find out. You can then move on to learn intricacies of FreeBSD. Just tweak a few parameters to make the network suit your environment.
This book is a guide to FreeBSD for network administrators; therefore it does not cover basic installation and configuration of FreeBSD, but is about using FreeBSD to build, secure, and maintain networks.
After introducing the basic tools for monitoring the performance and security of the system the book moves on to cover using jails—FreeBSD virtual environments—to virtually run multiple instances of FreeBSD on the same hardware. Then it shows how to overcome the different bottlenecks that you may meet depending on the services you are running by tweaking different parameters to maintain a high performance from your FreeBSD server. Next it covers using the ifconfig utility to configure interfaces with different layer protocols and about connectivity testing and debugging tools. After covering using User PPP or Kernel PPP for Point-to-Point Protocol network configuration it explains basic IP forwarding in FreeBSD and the use of the built-in routing daemons, routed and route6d, which support RIPv1, RIPv2, RIPng, and RDISC. Next it covers the OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD daemons that you can install to run OSPF and BGP on your host. Then it covers setup and configuration of IPFW and PF, and finally looks at some important internet services and how to set them up on your FreeBSD server.
Read the full Table of Contents for Network Administration with FreeBSD 7
- Monitor system performance and security
- Secure your network with Jails
- Tweak parameters to overcome bottlenecks
- Configure interfaces with ifconfig
- Test and debug connectivity
- Configure PPP networking
- Control IP and IPv6 routing with routed and route6d
- Run OSPF and BGP with OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD
- Configure an IPFW firewall and PF packet filtering
- Set up internet services on your FreeBSD server
This book first covers the basics on each topic clearly and then gives examples, so that you understand the topic clearly and can work on it independently after you have worked through the book.
This book is for Network Administrators who would like to work with FreeBSD and are looking for skills beyond installation and configuration of FreeBSD.
Babak Farrokhi
Babak Farrokhi is an experienced UNIX system administrator and Network Engineer who worked 12 years in the IT industry in carrier-level network service providers. He discovered FreeBSD around 1997 and since then he has been using it on a daily basis. He is also an experienced Solaris administrator and has extensive experience in TCP/IP networks.
In his spare time he contributes to the open source community and develops his skills to keep himself in the cutting edge.
You may contact Babak at babak@farrokhi.net and his personal website at http://farrokhi.net
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