The Fix Is In: Troubleshooting Your Network
Your Red Hat Linux machine is the foundation of your network and must be set up correctly for anything to run. If it isn’t working, or if you have an unusual setup (or if Murphy is in a bad mood), you can check for several different causes.We use the Red Hat Linux network as the troubleshooting example in this chapter. The Red Hat Linux network is one of the more difficult things to set up correctly because it depends on not only your Linux computer but also other computers. Suppose that your Red Hat Linux network isn’t working. Use the following sections of this chapter as a simple fault tree that you can follow to troubleshoot your network.TipSee Part V for insights into other problems. Chapter 17 describes how to find information about your Red Hat Linux computer. Chapter 20 also points out where you can get help and solve some simple, frequently encountered problems. Chapter 21 describes several security fixes.