In the last chapter, the focus was on maintaining the system's time and logging. Particularly, we touched on ways in which we could manipulate the system. Next, we worked with logging and explored the common log files. Finally, we worked with remote. We then generated test logs over on our Fedora system and verified that we received the logs over on our Ubuntu rsyslog server.
In this chapter, the focus is on Internet Protocol (IP). We will start off with IPv4, looking at the address structure and the various IPv4 addresses commonly used in today's environment. We will then move on to subnetting an IPv4 address, determining the network and host portion of an IPv4 address. This is then followed up with IPv6. We look at the structure of an IPv6 address and some well-known IPv6 addresses. Then we focus on ways in which we can reduce the...