What this book covers
Chapter 1, Configuring a Router, starts by getting you to manually configure the IP address information on your system and then properly configure the system to bring up its interfaces automatically. From there, we'll move on to extending our system to act as a router for your own network, including DHCP for dynamically configuring client systems.
Chapter 2, Configuring DNS, will cover setting up your internal DNS server for both resolving external hostnames for you, as well as hosting DNS records for your own domain.
Chapter 3, Configuring IPv6, will provide a brief introduction of IPv6. We'll configure a tunnel to provide IPv6 connectivity, implement firewalling using iptables6, and provide IPv6 addresses to the rest of your network.
Chapter 4, Remote Access, will look at methods for remotely interacting with your new network using OpenSSH and OpenVPN.
Chapter 5, Web Servers, will set up web servers hosting PHP code, using both the Apache HTTPD server and NGINX.
Chapter 6, Directory Services, will tell us how to use Samba 4 to create an Active Directory-compatible directory service for your network.
Chapter 7, Setting up File Storage, will give us several options to explore for hosting your own file storage, including Samba, NFS, and WebDAV.
Chapter 8, Setting up E-mail, will tell us how to set up an e-mail server. We'll talk about how e-mail works as a service, set SMTP and IMAP mail services, and enable some spam filtering.
Chapter 9, Configuring XMPP, will tell us how to configure our own XMPP based IM service, configure it to communicate with other XMPP services, and configure Pidgin as a client to utilize the service.
Chapter 10 , Monitoring Your Network, will tell us how to start monitoring services on our network using Nagios.
Chapter 11, Mapping Your Network, will cover mapping out the network in order to discover what is actually there.
Chapter 12, Watching Your Network, will cover watching over our network through centralized logging and managing an intrusion detection system using Snort.
