A book on setting up and running Unix networks. NAG is freely available in electronic form. It was produced by Olaf Kirch, and others as part of the Linux Documentation Project with help from O'Reilly and Associates. The second edition was last updated March 2000.
It includes the following sections:
- Introduction to Networking
- Issues of TCP/IP Networking
- Configuring the Networking Hardware
- Setting up the Serial Hardware
- Configuring TCP/IP Networking
- Name Service and Resolver Configuraton
- Serial Line IP
- The Point-to-Point Protocol
- Various Network Applications
- The Network Information System
- The Network File System
- Managing Taylor UUCP
- Electronic Mail
- Getting smail Up and Running
- Sendmail+IDA
- Netnews
- C News
- A Description of NNTP
- Newsreader Configuration
- A glossary
- Annotated Bibliography.
External link
- The Second edition, http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag2/index.html
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