Timothy Rice wrote: >>From someone for whom the description "Networking is My Weakest Area" is > also apt, I'd just like to say thanks to Neal and Bruce for explaining all > that stuff about GATEWAY, BROADCAST and NETMASK. Very lucid and helpful. > > Although the information is presented briefly in section 7.13: Configuring > the Network, the discussion there is rather terse. Would it be a bad idea > to "copy and paste" content from Bruce & Neal's recent posts - either into > the LFS book, or else into a Hint that the book then references?
LFS is more about how to build a system, not about presenting the theory of networking. There are tons of references about that. http://www.ics-control.com/theory.htm http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NET3-4-HOWTO.html http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/hmnetwk1.html etc. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
