Network Administration with FreeBSD 7: Building, Securing, and Maintaining Networks with the FreeBSD Operating System
- 3h 59m
- Babak Farrokhi
- Packt Publishing
- 2008
This book is a guide to FreeBSD for network administrators; therefore it does not cover basic installation and configuration of FreeBSD, but is about using FreeBSD to build, secure, and maintain networks.
After introducing the basic tools for monitoring the performance and security of the system the book moves on to cover using jails—FreeBSD virtual environments—to virtually run multiple instances of FreeBSD on the same hardware. Then it shows how to overcome the different bottlenecks that you may meet depending on the services you are running by tweaking different parameters to maintain a high performance from your FreeBSD server. Next it covers using the ifconfig utility to configure interfaces with different layer protocols and about connectivity testing and debugging tools. After covering using User PPP or Kernel PPP for Point-to-Point Protocol network configuration it explains basic IP forwarding in FreeBSD and the use of the built-in routing daemons, routed and route6d, which support RIPv1, RIPv2, RIPng, and RDISC. Next it covers the OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD daemons that you can install to run OSPF and BGP on your host. Then it covers setup and configuration of IPFW and PF, and finally looks at some important internet services and how to set them up on your FreeBSD server.
About the Author
Babak Farrokhi is an experienced UNIX system administrator and Network Engineer who worked 12 years in the IT industry in carrier-level network service providers. He discovered FreeBSD around 1997 and since then he has been using it on a daily basis. He is also an experienced Solaris administrator and has extensive experience in TCP/IP networks.
In this Book
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System Configuration–Disks
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System Configuration—Keeping It Updated
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System Configuration—Software Package Management
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System Configuration—System Management
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System Configuration—Jails
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System Configuration—Tuning Performance
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Network Configuration—Basics
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Network Configuration—Tunneling
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Network Configuration—PPP
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Network Configuration—Routing and Bridging
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Network Configuration—IPv6
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Network Configuration—Firewalls
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Network Services—Internet Servers
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Network Services—Local Network Services
