Linux Notes - Contents

Linux Installation and operation

• Hard disk partitioning
• Red Hat 4.1 installation
• Slackware 3.1 installation
• Building your own kernel
• Slackware and Red Hat compared
• The Linux kernel (PostScript)
• Comparison of DOS and unix commands (PostScript)
• unix login processes (PostScript)

TCP/IP

• IP addresses
• Netmask translation table
• Golden Rules for allocating IP numbers
• TCP/IP Intro (old)
• TCP/IP Administration (old)
• IP masquerading
• IP intro (PostScript)
• IP forwarding (PostScript)
• IP addressing of serial links (PostScript)
• IP address aggregation (PostScript)
• IP knowledge test (PostScript)
• DNS introduction (PostScript slides)
• TCP and UDP (PostScript)
• Using telnet to debug Internet services (PostScript)
• Client-Server architecture of Internet services(PostScript)
• Mailserver operation scheme (PostScript)

Communications

• Serial port configuration
• Modem configuration
• Dial-in configuration (getty)
• PPP configuration
• Linux uucp and sendmail
• Configuring sendmail for anti-relaying
• Ethernet (PostScript)
• RS232 standard (PostScript slides)
• Hayes modem standard commands (PostScript)
• Modem modulation standards (PostScript)

Crypto and security

• Security overview
• Crypto overview
• PGP
• Intro to Internet Security (PostScript)
• Basic unix security (PostScript)
• Network security - Firewalls (PostScript)

LDAP

• Documentation under development

Other notes

• joe - the easy to use text editor
• Tweaks to fvwm95
• Miscellaneous (ipfwadm, tar, gs)