Chapter FIFTEEN. Basic IP Configuration

Chapter Syllabus

15.1 Basic Networking Kernel Parameters

15.2 Data-Link Level Testing

15.3 Changing Your MAC Address

15.4 Link Speed and Auto-Negotiation

15.5 What's in an IP Address?

15.6 Subnetting

15.7 Static Routes

15.8 The netconf File

15.9 Dynamic IP Allocation: RARP and DHCP

15.10 Performing a Basic Network Trace

15.11 Modifying Network Parameters with ndd

15.12 IP Multiplexing

15.13 The 128-Bit IP Address: IPv6

15.14 Automatic Port Aggregation (APA)

This chapter reviews how we configure Basic IP functionality. It contains a discussion on MAC addresses and how we associate a MAC address with an IP address: the ARP protocol as well as RARP. We also discuss the emergence of IPv6 and the implications of supporting it in our networks.