Chapter 7. The Old-boy Network
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Setting up the network
- Let us ping!
- Listing all the machines alive on a network
- Running commands on a remote host with SSH
- Transferring files through the network
- Connecting to a wireless network
- Password-less auto-login with SSH
- Port forwarding using SSH
- Mounting a remote drive at a local mount point
- Network traffic and port analysis
- Creating arbitrary sockets
- Sharing an Internet connection
- Basic firewall using iptables
Introduction
Networking is the act of interconnecting machines to form a network so that the machines can interchange information. The most widely used networking stack is TCP/IP, where each node is assigned a unique IP address for identification. There are many parameters in networking, ...
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