8. ISP specific information

More specific information for certain ISPs is available from a variety of sources:

Demon Internet (demon.co.uk)

ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/unix/linux/Demon/slack3.0.help.tgz

Easynet TBA

Netcom http://www.netcom.com/bin/webtech/NetCruiser/Operating_Systems/Linux/linux.cfg.html

PowerTech, Schibstednett, Telenor Online

http://home.sn.no/~egilk/no-isp.html

Primenet TBA

Stanford

http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~wkn/Linux/network/network.html

If you know of ISP specific information not listed here, please get in touch.

8.1 How do I learn more?

The Linux Documentation Project book called Linux Network Administrator's Guide by Olaf Kirch is pretty mandatory for anyone that will set up and maintain anything involving TCP/IP and Internet:

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/network-guide/nag-1.0.ascii.tar.gz

The documentation that follows each software package will normally give you all the detailed information you need, if not always the overview. The man-pages will be the first place to look. Try for instance:

man pppd

You will also find some documentation about certain programs in the /usr/doc tree, although this is not always well structured.

The following HOWTOs will be highly relevant:

• Installation-HOWTO will get the basics sorted.
• NET-2-HOWTO is a very thorough description of installation and setup of the NET code. Much of this should already have been done if you use a standard Linux distribution (e.g. Slackware, RedHat, Debian). But many sections on setup and troubleshooting will be very worthwhile.
• Mail-HOWTO explains how to configure various tools. Again, much of this will already have been done for you when you install a standard Linux distribution.
• News-HOWTO is for setting up a (conventional) news spool.
• Tiny-News covers yet another alternative for collecting news.
• PPP-HOWTO is a good description of problems you may encounter when setting up a PPP connection.
• Serial-HOWTO contains everything you need to know about setting up serial ports.
• Mail-Queue tells you how to send up sendmail to always queue remote mail but deliver local mail at once.

8.2 Thanks to

Information here is collected from many sources. Thanks to the following that either indirectly or directly have contributed:

Adam Holt <holt@graphics.lcs.mit.edu>
Arne Coucheron <arneco@oslonett.no>
Arne Riiber <riiber@oslonett.no>
Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no>
Bjorn Steensrud <bjornst@powertech.no>
Gisle Hannemyr <gisle@a.sn.no>
Hans Amund Rosbach <haro@sesam.dnv.no>
Hans Peter Verne <hpv@ulrik.uio.no>
Harald T Alvestrand <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>
Harald Terkelsen  <Harald.Terkelsen@adm.hioslo.no>
Haavard Engum <hobbes@interlink.no>
Johan S. Seland <johanss@sn.no>
John Phillips <john@linux.demon.co.uk>
Jorn Lokoy <jorn@oslonett.no>
Kenneth Tjostheim <kenneth.tjostheim@asplanviak.no>
Kjell M. Myksvoll <kjell.myksvoll@fou.telenor.no>
Kjetil T. Homme <kjetilho@math.uio.no>
Michael Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com>
N J Bailey <N.J.Bailey@leeds.ac.uk>
Nicolai Langfeldt <janl@math.uio.no>
Ove Ruben R Olsen <Ove.R.Olsen@ub.uib.no>
R. Bardarson <ronb@powernet.net>
Steinar Fremme <steinar@fremme.no>
Sverre H. Huseby <sverrehu@ifi.uio.no>
Trond Eivind Glomsrod <teg@stud.imf.unit.no>
Tommy Larsen <tommy@mix.hive.no>