Networking-FAQ

Beginner's Guide to TCP/IP Networking and

Networking FAQ for

NetBSD-Amiga

15 May 1994

• Preface
  • Some warm words
  • Disclaimer
  • About the author
• Theory
  • Protocols supported by NetBSD
    • IP over serial lines
  • TCP/IP address format
  • Subnetting and Routing
  • Name service concepts
    • `/etc/hosts'
    • The Domain Name Service (DNS)
    • Network Information Service (NIS) / Yellow Pages (YP)
• Practice - Essential setup
  • Requirements
    • Hardware
      • Ethernet
      • Serial line
    • Kernel-requirements
    • Addresses: IP, Broadcast, Netmask, ...
  • Configuring the interface
    • Configuring your ethernet-board
    • Setting up serial protocols
      • Point to Point Protocol (PPP)
      • Serial Line IP (SLIP)
      • term
  • Routing
  • Translating names to IP-numbers
    • `/etc/hosts'
    • Domain Name Service (DNS)
    • Network Information Service (Yellow Pages)
  • How to use the above on `/etc/*'?
    • `/etc/netstart'
    • `/etc/rc'
    • `/etc/rc.local'
• Advanced features and how to set them up
  • Anonymous FTP server
  • Network File System (NFS)
    • Mounting remote filesystems
    • Exporting filesystems
  • Berkeley r-tools
    • Prerequirements/Security
  • X11
  • Domain Name Server (DNS)
  • Mail
  • Remote Printing
• FAQs
  • How do I set up networking?
  • I've choosen two IP-numbers, 1.1.1.1 and 2.2.2.2, but nothing works!
  • Netstat doesn't output anything
  • I can't get vmunix.613 to work with my Ethernet-board
  • The system hangs when going into multiuser-mode
  • timed and routed report some errors. Should I comment them out, too?
  • xhost says "must be on local host", but I'm already there!
  • ifconfig doesn't init my point-to-point-devices (SLIP/PPP) right
  • What's the Major and Minor device numbers for the le0 device?
• Abbreviations
• References