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- .\" Linux Network Administrators' Guide
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- .\" Copyright 1994 O. Kirch
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- The Linux Network Administrators' Guide
-
- Olaf Kirch, <okir@monad.swb.de>
- Linux Documentation Project
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- 18. Aug. 1994
- Release 1.0
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- .PH "'Networking Guide 1.0''Release Notes'
- .PF "''- % -''
- .P
- 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.
- .P
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- .H 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.
- .P
- 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:
- .P
- .BL
- .LI
- Preface
- .LI
- Introduction to Networking
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- Issues of TCP/IP Networking
- .LI
- Configuring the Networking Hardware
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- Setting up the Serial Hardware
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- Configuring TCP/IP Networking
- .LI
- Name Service and Resolver Configuraton
- .LI
- Serial Line IP
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- The Point-to-Point Protocol
- .LI
- Various Network Applications
- .LI
- The Network Information System
- .LI
- The Network File System
- .LI
- Managing Taylor UUCP
- .LI
- Electronic Mail
- .LI
- Getting smail Up and Running
- .LI
- Sendmail+IDA
- .LI
- Netnews
- .LI
- C News
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- A Description of NNTP
- .LI
- Newsreader Configuration
- .LI
- Glossary
- .LI
- Annotated Bibliography
- .LE
- .P
- 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.
- .P
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- .H 1 "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.
- .P
- Still, the NAG will remain freely distributable under the Linux
- Documentation 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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- .H 1 "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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- \fBsunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/LDP\fP
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- \fBtsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/docs/LDP\fP
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- The following packages are available:
- .BL
- .LI \fBnag-1.0.tar.gz\fR
- 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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- .LI \fBnag-dvi-1.0.tar.gz\fR
- 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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- .LI \fBnag-ps-1.0.tar.gz\fR
- This file contains the preformatted PostScript output of the
- NAG, again suitable for printing on Letter Paper. This should be
- almost painless to use.
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- .LI \fBnag-ascii-1.0.tar.gz\fR
- This is the ASCII version, which is provided for the benefit of those
- without the disk space or printer capabilities to handle a full
- TeX or ghostcript installation. As things go with ASCII, the output is
- not very high quality, will eat horrendous 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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- .P
- All these files are gzipped tar archives.
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- .H 1 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 references 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 \fImay\fR 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.
- .P
- I hope I didn't forget anything,
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- Enjoy
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- \h'4c'Olaf Kirch
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