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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration

You're reading from   Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration Master Linux administration skills and prepare for the RHCSA certification exam

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569829
Length 534 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Section 1: Systems Administration – Software, User, Network, and Services Management
2. Chapter 1: Installing RHEL8 FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: RHEL8 Advanced Installation Options 4. Chapter 3: Basic Commands and Simple Shell Scripts 5. Chapter 4: Tools for Regular Operations 6. Chapter 5: Securing Systems with Users, Groups, and Permissions 7. Chapter 6: Enabling Network Connectivity 8. Chapter 7: Adding, Patching, and Managing Software 9. Section 2: Security with SSH, SELinux, a Firewall, and System Permissions
10. Chapter 8: Administering Systems Remotely 11. Chapter 9: Securing Network Connectivity with firewalld 12. Chapter 10: Keeping Your System Hardened with SELinux 13. Chapter 11:System Security Profiles with OpenSCAP 14. Section 3: Resource Administration – Storage, Boot Process, Tuning, and Containers
15. Chapter 12: Managing Local Storage and Filesystems 16. Chapter 13: Flexible Storage Management with LVM 17. Chapter 14: Advanced Storage Management with Stratis and VDO 18. Chapter 15: Understanding the Boot Process 19. Chapter 16: Kernel Tuning and Managing Performance Profiles with tuned 20. Chapter 17: Managing Containers with Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo 21. Section 4: Practical Exercises
22. Chapter 18: Practice Exercises – 1 23. Chapter 19: Practice Exercise – 2 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring network configuration in RHEL

A network is made of different devices that have been interconnected so that information and resources can be shared among them; for example, internet access, printers, files, and more.

Networks have been present since the beginning computing. Initially, the most common were non-IP-based ones, which were generally used for sharing data across computers in the local network, but with the expansion of internet services and the requirement for applications or remote services, IP networks were expanded and the concept of intranet was introduced, where the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) was used as transport, and the applications started to be more like internet services (or even be based on them).

The migration to IP-based networks has also adapted other protocols such as Network Basic Input/Output System (NetBIOS) so that they can run on top of it (it was working on top of NetBIOS Extended User Interface (NetBEUI...

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