Exam 14: Network Configuration

SLIP is a newer technology than PPP.

Discuss modems, ISDN, and DSL. What types of data transfer speeds are each of these capable of? How are they typically configured?

The most common mail user agent used in Red Hat Fedora Linux is ____.

The ____ ftp utility command uploads the filename from the current directory on the local computer to the current directory on the remote computer, and allows the use of wildcard metacharacters to specify the filename .

E-mail is typically downloaded from an e-mail server via ____ or ____.

The subnet mask for a Class B IP address is ____.

The ____ command can be used to assign a TCP/IP configuration to a NIC as well as view the configuration of all network interfaces in the computer.

How do you configure a NIC? What do you do if the NIC is not detected during installation?

The IP address of the network interface on the router to which you send packets is called the ____________________.

What is a subnet mask? What purpose does it serve? How is it used to determine the network ID of an IP address?

To transfer information to and from a shared Windows directory, you can mount that directory to a local Linux directory using the ____ filesystem type.

The IP addresses ____ and ____ are not allowed to be assigned to a host computer because they refer to all networks and all computers on all networks, respectively.