Linux Home Administration |
The command line offers a wealth of network management commands. Here are some of my favorites.
NetworkManager has a command line interface (CLI).
Get status:
$ nmcli general status
STATE CONNECTIVITY WIFI-HW …You should protect your carefully built system and it's files from abuse, tampering, or just plain spying. It's easy to do, what are you waiting for? Encrypt your data directory now.
I use this as a guide to enable proper monitoring and maintenance of any new server on the network.
Virtual IP Interface behaves like a normal interface. All traffic routed to it will go through the master interface (for example, eth0).
You can also set a VLAN ID. Only VLAN-aware devices can accept these packets, or the traffic is dropped.
The BeagleBone (BB) [1] line supports the Linux kernel and GPIO hardware connections to devices via device trees [2]. It is simular to the Rasberry-PI line, only BB is open source hardware.
Web certificates encrypt different messages over the public internet so nobody can see what these messages contain.
A cloud used to be floating in the sky, then it was a bubbly thing on a network diagram where weird things happen. Now a cloud just means "Somebody else's computer.". Of course you get to it over a network and can share things, like files (pictures, music …
read moreA Domain Name Service (DNS) allows your E-Mail and Web Server to use a name instead of an IP Address, so other people can find you by name. Some Internet Service Providers (ISP) will change your IP address every few months in a residential environment.
Electronic Mail (E-Mail) is a way to type letters onto a computer and send them to other people. These other people's computers will then use E-Mail to read your letters. It is an electronic version of the Post Office.
The following diagrams are what this document will accomplish. The challenge is to obtain and keep a good reputation that other E-Mail handlers around the world will accept. Otherwise your messages will be dumped in the trash can (SPAM) or sent back to you (bounced).