In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Setting up the network
- Let us ping!
- Tracing IP routes
- Listing all available machines on a network
- Running commands on a remote host with SSH
- Running graphical commands on a remote machine
- 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
- Measuring network bandwidth
- Creating arbitrary sockets
- Building a bridge
- Sharing an Internet connection
- Basic firewall using iptables
- Creating a Virtual Private Network
