From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 31 20:43:18 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA09606 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 20:43:18 -0700 Received: from fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA09599 ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 20:43:14 -0700 Received: (from jfieber@localhost) by fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA21017; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 22:42:13 -0500 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 22:42:04 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Coranth Gryphon cc: hackers@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook ToDo... In-Reply-To: <199508290329.XAA27927@healer.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, Coranth Gryphon wrote: > Ok. I'll take "Basic Networking", and "Gateways and Routes". I'm getting a little disorganized here, did I reply to this already? If so, please forgive me... > What level of technical detail (or what volume of text) do we want? I guess we should assume that the reader knows what a network is. Maybe a paragraph summarizing that tcp/ip is the network protocol used by the Internet in general and FreeBSD in particular. That leads nicely into a description of what information the user needs to know (ip number, netmask, default router, nameserver etc). For "basic" networking, explain how things are done via sysinstall. Then maybe a brief tour of the most important network administration and diagnostic tools (ifconfig, netstat, ping, nslookup). The idea is to get a user in a fairly typical network environment up and running with minimal fuss. The other idea is to provide pointers to subsequent sections (some not yet written) for getting setup in more tricky situations such as SLIP and PPP connections. Gateways and routers? Well, I have read about them, but not having any direct work configuring/debugging I must say that the reading didn't sink in very deep. :) -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============