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The Linux Network Administrators' Guide
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Olaf Kirch, <okir@monad.swb.de>
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Linux Documentation Project
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18. Aug. 1994
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Release 1.0
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Welcome to the public release of the new Linux Network Administrators'
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Guide! After one year of work in (well, almost) seclusion, I'm proud
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to present you a completely revised, greatly improved and expanded
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Networking Guide.
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1. What's In It?
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The new NAG is an almost complete rewrite of the version I released
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almost exactly one year ago. It features several new chapters,
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including the setup of SLIP, PPP, and NIS. It also has a complete
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sendmail chapter now, written by Vince Skahan.
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The NAG is written mainly for networking rookies (as I have been when
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I started this project almost two years ago), but I hope it will be
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useful to more experienced networkers alike. It explains everything in
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pretty much detail, beginning with the basics of networking and slowly
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working its way up to the configuration of mail and news, covering
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both the setup of TCP/IP-based services and UUCP. The following list
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shows the table of contents:
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+ Preface
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+ Introduction to Networking
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+ Issues of TCP/IP Networking
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+ Configuring the Networking Hardware
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+ Setting up the Serial Hardware
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+ Configuring TCP/IP Networking
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+ Name Service and Resolver Configuraton
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+ Serial Line IP
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+ The Point-to-Point Protocol
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+ Various Network Applications
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+ The Network Information System
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+ The Network File System
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+ Managing Taylor UUCP
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+ Electronic Mail
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+ Getting smail Up and Running
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+ Sendmail+IDA
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+ Netnews
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+ C News
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+ A Description of NNTP
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+ Newsreader Configuration
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+ Glossary
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+ Annotated Bibliography
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The level of detail comes at a certain cost, which is the size of the
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book. When running it through LaTeX, it comes out at around 350 pages
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at the moment, counting table of contents, glossary, and index. This
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is quite a bit. I hope you'll enjoy it nevertheless.
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2. With a little help...
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The NAG wouldn't be what it is today if it wasn't for the involvement
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of O'Reilly and Associates in this project, who are going to publish
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the Official Printed Version of the NAG some time later this year.
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Since December 1993, I've been working with Andy Oram at O'Reilly who
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read everything I wrote, and sent me countless reviews, so much of the
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quality in this book is actually due to him.
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Still, the NAG will remain freely distributable under the Linux Docu-
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mentation Project's License, just the way the previous release was.
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Thus, no-one will be shut off; rather, you will be able to choose
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between the online version and a high-quality printed version.
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3. Obtaining the NAG
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The NAG is available both as LaTeX source, and preformatted in several
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ways. The primary FTP sites are
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sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/LDP
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tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/docs/LDP
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The following packages are available:
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nag-1.0.tar.gz This file contains the LaTeX source of the NAG. I've
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tried to make it as portable as possible, so I do hope it will
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compile cleanly on most LaTeX installations. Some nuances of the
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DVI and Postscript output can be controlled by a configuration
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file which allows you, among other things, to select a tighter
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printing which reduces the size of the printed book by almost 100
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pages. For details, please refer to the installation notes in
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that archive.
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nag-dvi-1.0.tar.gz This file contains the preformatted DVI output of
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the NAG, suitable for printing on US Letter paper. All figures in
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the NAG are done using using xfig, from which I generated
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epic/eepic output for the DVI version. The eepic macros rely on
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some LaTeX \special's that some DVI printer drivers may not have
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implemented. If you don't see any figures on your printout, or
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get pages full of error messages about \special's not supported
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while printing the NAG, your best option may be this: Convert the
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DVI file to PostScript and print the offending pages from using
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ghostcsript.
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nag-ps-1.0.tar.gz This file contains the preformatted PostScript out-
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put of the NAG, again suitable for printing on Letter Paper. This
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should be almost painless to use.
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nag-ascii-1.0.tar.gz This is the ASCII version, which is provided for
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the benefit of those without the disk space or printer capabili-
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ties to handle a full TeX or ghostcript installation. As things
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go with ASCII, the output is not very high quality, will eat hor-
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rendous amounts of paper when actually printing it (close to 400
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pages), and doesn't have any figures (anybody who is willing to
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try his or her hand on ASCII art is very welcome).
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All these files are gzipped tar archives.
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4. Feedback
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If you have complaints, suggestions, fixes, or questions, please mail
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me at the address given above. However, let me say a word about `bug'
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reporting: if you have fixes to the NAG itself, please don't use ref-
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erences like `page 87, second paragraph', but rather give me a section
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number, or even a detailed description like `In the mount section of
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the NFS chapter'. Although I may find the sentence you refer to when
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you use page numbers, there's no guarantee the mistake you spotted is
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anywhere close to that page on my printed copy.
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I hope I didn't forget anything,
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Enjoy
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Olaf Kirch
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