[Gllug] networking guide

countd countd42 at googlemail.com
Wed May 30 12:02:55 UTC 2007


On 5/30/07, Jason Clifford <jason at ukfsn.org> wrote:
> It's always worth knowing the approach (ifconfig/route) that will work on
> any box as well as the newer stuff.

Agreed.

> The fact is that the fundementals do not change. The IPv4 stack is managed
> in much the same way today that it was 10 years ago.
>
> Firewalling changed a bit with the switch from ipchains to iptables but
> otherwise a networking book from 5 years ago should still be very valid.

I was kind of hoping for confirmation of this in my initial mail.
Guess a little reading and experimentation won't go astray. Thanks all
for your contributions.
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