What You've Learned The Internet Protocol (IP) provides manual and dynamic addressing strategies. IP over FireWire allows you to connect to other computers using IP, and is ideal for clustering solutions and as a failover option. The extra bandwidth available with IP over FireWire allows you to transfer large amounts of data to a backup system without impacting your other network activity. Mac OS X supports IPv6 and automatically assigns an IPv6 address, but does not use it as the primary address except when operating in an IPv6 environment. You can provide for special networking requirements by using the Ethernet pane of the Network pane of System Preferences to define advanced Ethernet settings. The Mac OS X DNS resolver is lookupd. The launchd and xinetd daemons listen to service requests and forwards them to the appropriate daemon. Mac OS X implements multihoming by allowing you to define multiple IP addresses for your computer.
References Administration Guides Mac OS X Server Network Services Administration: http://images.apple.com/server/pdfs/Network_Services_v10.4.pdf Apple Knowledge Base Documents The following Knowledge Base document (located at www.apple.com/support) provides further information about IP networks and services. Document 18237, "DHCP: What Is It?" Books Hunt, Craig. TCP/IP Network Administration, 3rd ed. (O'Reilly, 2002). Hagen, Silvia. IPv6 Essentials, 1st ed. (O'Reilly, 2002). URLs "Getting Started with launchd": http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html Resources for DHCP: www.dhcp.org IPv6: The Next Generation Internet: www.ipv6.org | 