Introducing UNIX and Linux

Maintaining your Linux OS

Overview
Basic management
      Passwords
      Checking storage space
      Checking processes
      Managing users
      Shutting down and restarting your computer
      Automating tasks
Linux file management
      File compression and archiving tools
      File managers
      File splitters
Linux networking
      Getting started
      MAC and IP addresses
      Domain names
      Adding a Linux host to an existing network
      Building a private network
      Configuring the network interface
Security
Uninstalling Linux
Summary

Getting started

There is a lot to Linux networking and it is not the intention of this section (or indeed this book) to provide a comprehensive Linux networking tutorial. However, this section should serve as an introduction to the material that you will find in many of the good Linux networking tutorials and books. It will familiarise you with the terminology that you will need to understand and proceed with these more detailed manuals. This said, later subsections provide some detail on 'how to add your Linux machine to an existing network' and 'how to build your own private Linux network'.

For further Linux networking information see the following sources:

www.linux.org - follow the links to 'Linux Networking HOWTO'. Incidentally, there are lots of other HOWTOs at this web site that contain useful information from how to configure a CD-ROM under Linux to how you should go about installing Chinese.
comp.os.linux.networking - this is a useful newsgroup dedicated to networking and related matters. If you have any networking problems, be they large or small, you will probably find someone on this newsgroup who has experienced the problem before.

There are a variety of ways of networking collections of UNIX-based computers. Probably the most common is through the use of Ethernet.