When Olaf Kirche joined the LDP in 1992, he wrote two small chapters on UUCP and smail, which he meant to contribute to the System Administrator’s Guide. Development of TCP/IP networking was just beginning, and when those “small chapters” started to grow, he wondered aloud whether it would be nice to have a Networking Guide. “Great!” everyone said. “Go for it!” So he went for it a…
Modern networking applications require a sophisticated approach to carrying data from one machine to another. If you are managing a Linux machine that has many users, each of whom may wish to simultaneously connect to remote hosts on a network, you need a way of allowing them to share your network connection without interfering with each other. The approach that a large number of modern network…