Chapter 16: Connecting to the Internet


Overview

This chapter demonstrates how to connect Fedora to any TCP/IP-based network, such as the Internet, a private LAN, or a company WAN. The differences in how you connect have more to do with the network medium you use (that is, telephone lines, LAN router, and so on) than they do with whether you are connecting to the public Internet or a company’s private network.

Connections to the Internet described in this chapter include a simple dial-up connection from your own Fedora system. The most popular protocol for making dial-up connections to the Internet is Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP). It also builds on the procedures in Chapter 15 for creating your own Local Area Network (LAN) by teaching you how to connect your LAN to the Internet.

This chapter first provides an overview of the structure of the Internet, including descriptions of domains, routing, and proxy service. It then discusses how to connect your Fedora system to the Internet using PPP dial-up connections. For those who want to connect a LAN to the Internet, it describes how to use Fedora as a router and set it up to do IP masquerading (to protect your private LAN addresses). Finally, it describes how to configure Fedora as a proxy server, including how to configure client applications such as Mozilla and Microsoft Internet Explorer.




Red Hat Fedora Linux 3 Bible
Red Hat Fedora Linux 3 Bible
ISBN: 0764578723
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 286

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