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The Linux Networking Overview HOWTO

Daniel Lopez Ridruejo, ridruejo@rawbyte.com

v0.32, 8 July 2000

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The purpose of this document is to give an overview of the networking capabilities of the Linux Operating System and to provide pointers for further information and implementation details.

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1. Introduction

2. Linux.

• 2.1 What is Linux?
• 2.2 What makes Linux different?

3. Networking protocols

• 3.1 TCP/IP
• 3.2 TCP/IP version 6
• 3.3 IPX/SPX
• 3.4 AppleTalk Protocol Suite
• 3.5 WAN Networking: X.25, Frame-relay, etc...
• 3.6 ISDN
• 3.7 PPP, SLIP, PLIP
• 3.8 Amateur Radio
• 3.9 ATM

4. Networking hardware supported

5. File Sharing and Printing

• 5.1 Apple environment
• 5.2 Windows Environment
• 5.3 Novell Environment
• 5.4 Unix Environment

6. Internet/Intranet

• 6.1 Mail
• 6.2 Web Servers
• 6.3 Web Browsers
• 6.4 FTP Servers and clients
• 6.5 News service
• 6.6 Domain Name System
• 6.7 DHCP, bootp
• 6.8 NIS
• 6.9 Authentication

7. Remote execution of applications

• 7.1 Telnet
• 7.2 Remote commands
• 7.3 The X Window System
• 7.4 VNC

8. Network Interconnection

• 8.1 Router
• 8.2 Bridge
• 8.3 IP Masquerade
• 8.4 IP Accounting
• 8.5 IP aliasing
• 8.6 Traffic Shaping
• 8.7 Firewall
• 8.8 Port forwarding
• 8.9 Load Balancing
• 8.10 EQL
• 8.11 Proxy Server
• 8.12 Diald on demand
• 8.13 Tunnelling, mobile IP and virtual private networks

9. Network Management

• 9.1 Network management applications
• 9.2 SNMP

10. Enterprise Linux Networking

• 10.1 High Availability
• 10.2 RAID
• 10.3 Redundant networking

11. Sources of Information

12. Document history

13. Acknowledgements and disclaimer

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