IBM eserver certification study guide. AIX 5L communications / [Tim Dasgupta, Stephen Sommer].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dasgupta, Tim.

Contributor:

Sommer, Stephen.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic data processing personnel--Certification.

Electronic data processing personnel.

Operating systems (Computers)--Examinations--Study guides.

Operating systems (Computers).

AIX (Computer file)--Examinations--Study guides.

AIX (Computer file).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Other Title:

AIX 5L communications

Place of Publication:

[United States?] : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Figures

Tables

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Chapter 1. Certification overview

1.1 Certification requirements

1.1.1 Required prerequisite

1.1.2 Recommended prerequisite

1.1.3 Information and registration for the certification exam

1.1.4 Core requirements

1.2 Certification education courses

Chapter 2. Network interfaces and protocols

2.1 Networking basics

2.2 Ethernet standards overview

2.2.1 Access method

2.2.2 Fast Ethernet

2.2.3 Gigabit Ethernet

2.3 Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)

2.3.1 TCP/IP over ATM

2.4 Network media

2.5 Ethernet frame types

2.6 Hubs, bridges, switches, and routers

2.7 Network protocols

2.7.1 Protocol summary

2.8 Networking hardware

2.8.1 Network adapters

2.8.2 Network drivers

2.9 AIX network interfaces

2.10 Quiz

2.10.1 Answers

2.11 Exercises

Chapter 3. Network addressing and routing

3.1 Internet addressing

3.1.1 IP address format

3.1.2 Internet address classes

3.1.3 Special Internet addresses

3.1.4 Subnetting

3.1.5 Supernetting

3.1.6 Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)

3.2 Routing

3.2.1 An introduction to static and dynamic routing

3.2.2 Static routing

3.2.3 Dynamic routing

3.2.4 ICMP redirects

3.2.5 Routing debugging

3.3 Command summary

3.3.1 The ifconfig command

3.3.2 The netstat command

3.3.3 The route command

3.3.4 The chdev command

3.3.5 The lsattr command

3.4 Quiz

3.4.1 Answers

3.5 Exercises

Chapter 4. Basic network administration

4.1 Network administration using SMIT

4.1.1 Minimum configuration

4.1.2 Further TCP/IP configuration

4.1.3 Setting the host name

4.1.4 Host name resolution

4.1.5 Network interface configuration.

4.1.6 The prtconf command

4.1.7 The TTY configuration

4.1.8 Asynchronous Terminal Emulation

4.1.9 EtherChannel

4.2 Configuring network attributes

4.3 Securing network services

4.3.1 The r-commands

4.3.2 The telnet service

4.3.3 The FTP service

4.4 Command summary

4.4.1 The lsattr command

4.4.2 The chdev command

4.5 Quiz

4.5.1 Answers

4.6 Exercises

Chapter 5. Network daemons

5.1 Network startup

5.1.1 System Resource Controller

5.2 Network subsystems

5.3 Stopping network subsystems

5.4 Internet daemon - inetd

5.4.1 The /etc/inetd.conf file

5.4.2 The /etc/services file

5.4.3 The ports assigned to network services

5.4.4 Inetd subsystem control

5.5 Network subservers

5.5.1 Controlling subservers

5.5.2 File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

5.5.3 Anonymous FTP

5.5.4 RCP file transfer

5.5.5 Trivial File Transfer Protocol

5.5.6 Security consideration with inetd subservers

5.6 Command summary

5.6.1 The startsrc command

5.6.2 The stopsrc command

5.6.3 The refresh command

5.6.4 The lssrc command

5.7 Quiz

5.7.1 Answers

5.8 Exercises

Chapter 6. Network services administration

6.1 Bootstrap protocol BOOTP

6.1.1 Configuring BOOTP

6.2 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

6.2.1 DHCP server configuration

6.2.2 DHCP/BOOTP relay agent configuration

6.2.3 BOOTP and DCHP interoperation

6.2.4 DHCP client configuration

6.3 Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS)

6.4 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

6.4.1 Files and file formats

6.4.2 SNMP Requests for Comments (RFCs)

6.5 Command summary

6.5.1 The dadmin command

6.6 Quiz

6.6.1 Answers

6.7 Exercises

Chapter 7. NFS

7.1 Protocols

7.1.1 UDP or TCP

7.1.2 RPC

7.1.3 XDR

7.2 NFS daemons

7.2.1 The portmap daemon

7.2.2 The rpc.mountd daemon.

7.2.3 The nfsd daemon

7.2.4 The biod daemon

7.2.5 The rpc.lockd daemon

7.2.6 The rpc.statd daemon

7.3 NFS server considerations

7.3.1 Exporting file systems from a server

7.3.2 Controlling server daemons

7.3.3 Server performance

7.4 NFS client considerations

7.4.1 Client-side mount problem determination

7.4.2 Client mount options

7.4.3 Client performance considerations

7.5 Automount

7.5.1 Indirect maps

7.5.2 Direct maps

7.5.3 Auto.master map

7.6 Summary

7.6.1 Protocols

7.6.2 Daemons

7.6.3 Files

7.7 Command summary

7.7.1 The showmount command

7.7.2 The exportfs command

7.7.3 The mount command

7.7.4 The nfsstat command

7.7.5 The iptrace command

7.7.6 The ipreport command

7.7.7 The netstat command

7.7.8 The chnfs command

7.7.9 The rpcinfo command

7.8 Quiz

7.8.1 Answers

7.9 Exercises

Chapter 8. Domain Name System

8.1 DNS overview

8.1.1 The DNS hierarchy

8.1.2 Domain name resolution

8.1.3 DNS resource records

8.1.4 DNS components

8.2 Setting up a primary DNS server

8.2.1 The /etc/named.boot file

8.2.2 The name zone file

8.2.3 The IP zone file

8.2.4 The local IP zone file

8.2.5 The root cache file

8.2.6 The /etc/named.hosts file

8.2.7 Starting named daemon

8.3 Setting up a secondary DNS server

8.3.1 The /etc/named.boot file for a secondary name server

8.3.2 Local IP zone file for secondary name server

8.3.3 Starting up a secondary name server

8.4 Setting up a cache-only name server

8.5 Setting up the DNS client

8.6 Quiz

8.6.1 Answers

8.7 Exercises

Chapter 9. Mail services

9.1 Mail system overview

9.1.1 The mail system

9.1.2 The mh system

9.1.3 The bellmail system

9.2 The mailq command

9.3 The sendmail command

9.4 Sendmail upgrade enhancements (5.1.0)

9.5 Quiz.

9.5.1 Answers

9.6 Exercises

Chapter 10. NIS

10.1 Components of NIS

10.1.1 NIS servers

10.1.2 NIS daemons

10.1.3 NIS maps

10.2 NIS configuration considerations

10.2.1 Master server configuration

10.2.2 Client configuration considerations

10.2.3 Slave server configuration considerations

10.3 Starting NIS

10.3.1 Master server startup

10.3.2 Slave server startup

10.3.3 NIS client startup

10.3.4 Managing NIS maps

10.4 NIS configuration summary

10.5 Command summary

10.5.1 The ypbind command

10.5.2 The ypset command

10.5.3 The ypinit command

10.5.4 The yppush command

10.5.5 The yppasswd command

10.6 Quiz

10.6.1 Answers

10.7 Exercises

Chapter 11. Serial Line Internet Protocol

11.1 Setting up the serial port and modem

11.2 Configuring the SLIP connection

11.2.1 Deactivating the SLIP connection

11.2.2 Activating a SLIP connection

11.3 The slattach command

11.4 Files

11.5 Quiz

11.5.1 Answers

11.6 Exercises

Abbreviations and acronyms

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other resources

Referenced Web sites

How to get IBM Redbooks

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Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"December 2002."

"SG24-6186-01."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

560312154