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A Network Tutorial/How-To Guide For The Freebsd Os: Nick Rogness

This document provides an overview of a tutorial guide for networking with the FreeBSD operating system. The guide is intended for system administrators and will demonstrate how to set up basic and advanced network configurations in FreeBSD. It will start with a simple example network and then build on that by adding additional services. The topics that will be covered include an introduction to FreeBSD, a basic network setup, advanced network examples, and a FAQ section addressing commonly asked questions.

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A Network Tutorial/How-To Guide For The Freebsd Os: Nick Rogness

This document provides an overview of a tutorial guide for networking with the FreeBSD operating system. The guide is intended for system administrators and will demonstrate how to set up basic and advanced network configurations in FreeBSD. It will start with a simple example network and then build on that by adding additional services. The topics that will be covered include an introduction to FreeBSD, a basic network setup, advanced network examples, and a FAQ section addressing commonly asked questions.

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FreeBSD Network Tutorial/How-To Guide Page 1

A Network Tutorial/How-To Guide


for the FreeBSD OS
by Nick Rogness

Overview

Scope:

These How-To's are a guide for System Admins. They are not programming references. They will
show you how to get parts of the FreeBSD system up working along with making other systems
work with your setup.

For example, the Apache web server serves out web pages but needs the DNS system up and
functioning properly in order for anything to work properly. To add on to that example, In order to
catch errors from users you may chose to use email to communicate when a link is broken, in order
to do that you need sendmail to be working with DNS and Apache, and you also may want to
protect your webserver with a firewall. All of these systems use each other directly or are tied into
each other somehow. You can see how this is a snowball effect. Each section will build on the
previous section. It is recommended that you read the previus sections to get a good understanding
of it's concepts. I also recommend this technique for troubleshooting FreeBSD problems.

We will start by looking at a basic example of a typical FreeBSD setup and working toward some of
the more advanced things you can do with BSD. We will be adding features as we go hopefully
getting to a point that helps most people out and also discuss some of the internal workings of
FreeBSD. Note: To save space I will be referring to FreeBSD as BSD, this is just for this document
to conserve key strokes. There are several other BSD flavors out there including OpenBSD,
NetBSD, and Trusted BSD

The division is split as follows:

Newbie's Starter Kit

- Introduction to the FreeBSD OS and general info...Good place to start

Basic example

- Start for beginners, starting with an example network

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Advanced Examples

- This section we will be adding services to your BSD machine

FAQ

- The Frequently Asked Questions section deals with the most commonly asked
questions when dealing with FreeBSD. I have compiled a list of answers to
questions occuring on the freebsd-questions over the last 2 years.

Lets Get Started!

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