1.5 Background

This book assumes you have an understanding of the basics of networking and does not go into detail about the Open System Interconnection (OSI) layered network model and other topics frequently included in books on networking. However, when an aspect of the underlying technology is particularly relevant, it is described in enough detail so that only a general familiarity with the material is necessary.

Each of the tools here is built from source, with explicit demonstrations in the text. The tools should build without much trouble, but a build process does occasionally fail. If it does, you may need some experience with building software in order to fix the problem. Often, it is simply a matter of instructing the build system to look for software in an unexpected location on the machine or of building a separate, required package that is not already installed on the machine. Sometimes the problem will be an error in the build system itself, in which case the maintainer of the software should be given a detailed report of the problem.



Open Source Network Administration
Linux Kernel in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (OReilly))
ISBN: 130462101
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 85

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