Summary

In this chapter, we explored additional networking topics. We started off with some notes on planning an IP address scheme for your network so that you could create groups for the different types of nodes, such as servers and network equipment, and plan a pool of addresses for DHCP. We also worked through the process of setting up a DHCP and DNS server, which gives us additional flexibility when configuring the services we run on our network, such as when defining a custom IP scheme for DHCP, as well as giving us the ability to resolve the hostnames of devices on our network by name. We closed off this chapter with discussions on setting up an internet gateway to serve as our internet-facing router, as well as configuring an NTP server for ensuring that the clocks of our servers are synchronized.

In the next chapter, we'll take a look at sharing and transferring files over the network. This will include covering NFS and Samba shares, as well as using scp, rsync...