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- The Linux Network Administrators' Guide
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- Olaf Kirch, <okir@monad.swb.de>
- Linux Documentation Project
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- 18. Aug. 1994
- Release 1.0
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- Welcome to the public release of the new Linux Network Administrators'
- Guide! After one year of work in (well, almost) seclusion, I'm proud
- to present you a completely revised, greatly improved and expanded
- 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
- almost exactly one year ago. It features several new chapters,
- including the setup of SLIP, PPP, and NIS. It also has a complete
- sendmail chapter now, written by Vince Skahan.
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- The NAG is written mainly for networking rookies (as I have been when
- I started this project almost two years ago), but I hope it will be
- useful to more experienced networkers alike. It explains everything in
- pretty much detail, beginning with the basics of networking and slowly
- working its way up to the configuration of mail and news, covering
- both the setup of TCP/IP-based services and UUCP. The following list
- 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
- book. When running it through LaTeX, it comes out at around 350 pages
- at the moment, counting table of contents, glossary, and index. This
- 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
- of O'Reilly and Associates in this project, who are going to publish
- the Official Printed Version of the NAG some time later this year.
- Since December 1993, I've been working with Andy Oram at O'Reilly who
- read everything I wrote, and sent me countless reviews, so much of the
- quality in this book is actually due to him.
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- Still, the NAG will remain freely distributable under the Linux Docu-
- mentation Project's License, just the way the previous release was.
- Thus, no-one will be shut off; rather, you will be able to choose
- 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
- ways. The primary FTP sites are
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- sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/LDP
- 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
- tried to make it as portable as possible, so I do hope it will
- compile cleanly on most LaTeX installations. Some nuances of the
- DVI and Postscript output can be controlled by a configuration
- file which allows you, among other things, to select a tighter
- printing which reduces the size of the printed book by almost 100
- pages. For details, please refer to the installation notes in
- that archive.
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- nag-dvi-1.0.tar.gz This file contains the preformatted DVI output of
- the NAG, suitable for printing on US Letter paper. All figures in
- the NAG are done using using xfig, from which I generated
- epic/eepic output for the DVI version. The eepic macros rely on
- some LaTeX \special's that some DVI printer drivers may not have
- implemented. If you don't see any figures on your printout, or
- get pages full of error messages about \special's not supported
- while printing the NAG, your best option may be this: Convert the
- DVI file to PostScript and print the offending pages from using
- ghostcsript.
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- nag-ps-1.0.tar.gz This file contains the preformatted PostScript out-
- put of the NAG, again suitable for printing on Letter Paper. This
- 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
- the benefit of those without the disk space or printer capabili-
- ties to handle a full TeX or ghostcript installation. As things
- go with ASCII, the output is not very high quality, will eat hor-
- rendous amounts of paper when actually printing it (close to 400
- pages), and doesn't have any figures (anybody who is willing to
- 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
- me at the address given above. However, let me say a word about `bug'
- reporting: if you have fixes to the NAG itself, please don't use ref-
- erences like `page 87, second paragraph', but rather give me a section
- number, or even a detailed description like `In the mount section of
- the NFS chapter'. Although I may find the sentence you refer to when
- you use page numbers, there's no guarantee the mistake you spotted is
- anywhere close to that page on my printed copy.
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- I hope I didn't forget anything,
- Enjoy
- Olaf Kirch
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