[ Thanks to Linux
Mint for these links. ]
How to Setup a Home Network Using Static Addresses
“If you have more than one computer at home, you’ll probably
want to set up a network so that they can communicate. This way
you’ll be able to share your Internet connection and to transfer
files and services between your different computers. Most home
networks have two functions: They connect the computers together on
the same network and they connect that network to the Internet. The
most popular technology to set up home network is called Ethernet
and it uses a communication protocol called IP (which stands for
‘Internet Protocol’). All modern computers now have ethernet or
wifi cards and it has become very easy to connect them to the
network…”
Securing Your Network by Filtering MAC Addresses
“If you live in the middle of nowhere you probably wonder why
you should secure the access to your network. If you’re setting up
a company network however, this probably seems obvious to you: you
don’t want unwanted access to the network. Even at home, with
wireless networks becoming more and more popular, you could very
well be concerned by this problem. For instance, if you have a Wifi
router at home which connects you to the Internet, chances are that
people around you (your neighbours?) are connecting through it to
access the Internet via your Internet account…”
Using Both Static Addresses and DHCP
“When you set up your home network an important choice has to be
made. Are you going to use dynamic or static addressing? In other
words, are you going to assign IP addresses to your computers
manually, or will you ask your router to assign them for you
dynamically through the use of DHCP? Sometimes, the best is to use
both. In this article we’ll see what advantages DHCP and static
addressing can give us compared to each other and we’ll learn how
to use both in our home network…”
Network Configuration Files in Linux
“In this article we saw how to use commands like route and
ifconfig to set up a computer on the network. However, upon reboot,
our configuration was lost. Although route and ifconfig properly
configured the computer to connect to the network, they didn’t
change its permanent network configuration, which was restored at
boot time…”