Linux Networking HOWTO - Senthil Kumaran

v1.6 Sep 2008

Revision history list change only for major upates

• Revision 1.6 is Wikification of How to.
• Revision v1.5 Aug 1999

List of Authors:

• Terry Dawson (main author)

• Alessandro Rubini

• Joshua Drake (Poet) (Former Maintainer)

The Linux Operating System boasts kernel based networking support written almost entirely from scratch. The performance of the tcp/ip implementation in recent kernels makes it a worthy alternative to even the best of its peers. This document aims to describe how to install and configure the Linux networking software and associated tools.

General Information

• A brief history of Linux Networking Kernel Development

• Linux Networking Resource

• Where to get some non-linux specific network information

Generic Network Configuration Information

• What do I need to start ?

• Where should I put the configuration commands ?

• Creating your network interfaces.

• Configuring your network interfaces.

• Configuring your Name Resolver.

• Configuring your Loop Back Interface

• Routing

• Configuring your server and services

• Other miscellaneous network related configuration files.

• Network Security and access control.

IP- and Ethernet-Related Information

• Ethernet

• EQL - multiple line traffic equaliser

• IP Accounting (for Linux-2.0)

• IP Accounting (for Linux-2.2)

• IP Aliasing

• IP Firewall (for Linux-2.0)

• IP Firewall (for Linux-2.2)

• IPIP Encapsulation

• IP Masquerade

• IP Transparent Proxy

• IPv6

• Mobile IP

• Multicast

• NAT - Network Address Translation

• Traffic Shaper - Changing allowed bandwidth

• Routing in Linux-2.2

Using Common PC hardware

• ISDN

• PLIP for Linux-2.0

• PLIP for Linux-2.2

• PPP

• SLIP client

• SLIP server.

Other Network Technologies

• ARCNet

• Appletalk (AF_APPLETALK)

• ATM

• AX25 (AF_AX25)

• DECNet

• FDDI

• Frame Relay

• IPX (AF_IPX)

• NetRom (AF_NETROM)

• Rose protocol (AF_ROSE)

• SAMBA - `NetBEUI', `NetBios', `CIFS' support.

• STRIP support (Starmode Radio IP)

• Token Ring

• X.25

• WaveLan Card

Cables and Cabling

• Serial NULL Modem cable

• Parallel port cable (PLIP cable)

• 10base2 (thin coax) Ethernet Cabling

• Twisted Pair Ethernet Cable

Glossary

• Glossary of terms

Ackowledgements

I'd like to thank the following people for their contributions to this document (in no particular order): Terry Dawson, Axel Boldt, Arnt Gulbrandsen, Gary Allpike, Cees de Groot, Alan Cox, Jonathon Naylor, Claes Ensson, Ron Nessim, John Minack, Jean-Pierre Cocatrix, Erez Strauss.

Feedback - Licences

This FAQ is maintained by Senthil Kumaran (orsenthil@gmail.com), to whom all corrections and suggestions should be addressed. The latest revision can always be found at http://wiki.tldp.org/Linux_Networking_HOWTO/

Contents are Copyright (C) 2008, Senthil Kumaran.

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Alternatively and at the recipient's option, this work may be used freely under terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2.