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For an overview of the changes to the software and docs, see:
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This User's Guide accompanies the TCP/IP
package for the QNX operating system (4.25 or later) and is
intended for both end-users and developers.
This guide is designed as a supplement to the companion book
TCP/IP Network Administration (2nd edition), which provides a
generic treatment of the subject of TCP/IP.
This guide contains the following chapters:
- Welcome to TCP/IP for QNX -
introduces you to basic concepts, with examples to
help you plan your network.
- Basic Configuration -
discusses setting up TCP/IP clients, servers, and gateways;
also contains a section on debugging.
- LAN Configuration -
discusses setting up networking hardware.
- Serial Network Configuration -
discusses setting up SLIP and PPP serial links.
- Setting up Mail -
gives a brief overview of Internet mail; topics include
incoming mail, outgoing mail, MX records, and Post Office Protocol.
- Remote Printing Utilities -
provides a summary of the lpd utilities; also includes a troubleshooting
table of error messages.
- What is NFS? -
describes NFS, the Network File System, for transparently accessing files
on other systems.
- Slinger Webserver -
discusses setting up the HTTP server for resource-constrained environments.
- SNMPv2 -
describes how you manage multiple network devices from a central location.
- TCP/IP Utilities -
describes all the utilities, servers, applications, and key configuration
files (in alphabetical order).
You'll also find these appendixes:
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We assume that QNX is already installed and running on
your machine. If not, you should refer to the QNX
Installation & Configuration manual. |
- Slinger webserver
- SNMP version 2
- DHCP client
- Enhanced support for bootp
- Support for lookup keyword in /etc/resolv.conf
- Updated BIND package (named, named-xfer, nslookup)
- Shared libraries
- Slinger webserver chapter
- SNMP version 2 chapter
- References to Craig Hunt's TCP/IP Network Administration
book now refer to the 2nd edition.
- Utilities and configuration files added to the docs:
- acl.conf
- Specifies permitted operations on a defined SNMP context
- context.conf
- Context definitions for SNMPv2
- dhcp.client
- TCP/IP host configuration utility
- ds
- Data server
- mstrip
- Strip MIB modules from an RFC
- named-bootconf
- Convert a BIND 4 named.boot to a BIND 8 named.conf
- named.conf
- Configuration file for named
- named-xfer
- Ancillary agent for inbound zone transfers
- party.conf
- Configuration file for SNMPv2 party definitions
- ~/.rhosts
- Specify trusted remote users
- slinger
- Tiny webserver
- smic
- MIB compiler
- snmpbulkwalk
- Query for a tree of information about a network entity
- snmpd.conf
- SNMP agent docs
- snmpset
- Communicate with a network entity using SNMP SET requests
- snmptranslate
- Get the dot notation of an object ID from the symbolic name or vice versa
- Sockppp
- Socket manager
- view.conf
- View definitions for SNMPv2
- New utilities:
- if_up
- Ensure a TCP/IP interface is available
- New options were added to these utilities:
- There's new information about party definitions in:
- The bootpd utility isn't compiled to take
advantage of the dumpfile. The description for the -d option has been changed.
- If permissions are set incorrectly for your .netrc file, ftp
aborts the autologin process. See
``The .netrc file'' in
the ftp utility.
- Added a reference to a sample named.conf file.
- bootptab -
It was incorrectly stated that ``Specifying the to symbol as a Boolean has the
same effect as specifying auto as its value.'' In fact, bootpd gives
a syntax error when the to symbol is specified as a Boolean.
- printcap -
Updated the list of capabilities.
- sendmail.cf -
Corrected the exit status return list.
- Utilities and configuration files removed from the docs:
- syslogd (see QNX OS Utilities Reference)
- syslog.conf (see QNX OS Utilities Reference)
- riplogin (part of the gated distribution)