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# The Linux Networking Overview HOWTO

## Daniel Lopez Ridruejo, `ridruejo@rawbyte.com`

v0.32, 8 July 2000

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.

## 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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