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Chapter 7: Connect Locally, Communicate Globally: Connecting to a LAN
Overview
In This Chapter
Networking with an Ethernet or wireless NIC
Using the Red Hat Network Utility
Starting and stopping your local network connection
This chapter shows how to connect your Red Hat Linux computer to an existing Local Area Network (LAN), also referred to as a private network. It’s different from connecting directly to the Internet with a dial-up modem or broadband connection, as we describe in Chapters 5 and 6; those chapters show how to connect a single, stand-alone Red Hat Linux computer directly to the Internet. In this case, you connect your Red Hat Linux computer to a LAN.You may be building your Red Hat Linux computer to use at home, work, or school. It doesn’t matter what the venue is — you can use the information in this chapter to connect your computer to any existing LAN. Note that your computer has access to the Internet if that LAN is connected to it.Don’t get discouraged if you don’t have access to a LAN. You can make your own! Chapter 15 describes how to put one together.Remember In this book, the terms LAN and private network are used interchangeably.TipIf you configured your Ethernet card to connect to your LAN during the installation process we describe in Chapter 3, that’s great! You can skip this chapter or just browse through it for fun. Otherwise, you can use this chapter to connect your computer to a LAN.Although forming a private network isn’t exactly rocket science, a detailed description of how to network two or more computers is beyond the scope of this book because so many network configurations are possible. Many good books are available that explain how to do that, and the best place to start is at the Wiley Web site: www.wiley.com.
