Chapter 16: Connecting to the Internet
Overview
This chapter demonstrates how to Chapter 15 for creating your own Local Area Network (LAN) by teaching you how to connect your LAN to the Internet.This chapter first provides an overview of the structure of the Internet, including descriptions of domains, routing, and proxy service. It then discusses how to connect your Red Hat Linux system to the Internet using PPP dial-up connections. For those who want to connect a LAN to the Internet, it describes how to use Red Hat Linux as a router and set it up to do IP masquerading (to protect your private LAN addresses). Finally, it describes how to configure Red Hat Linux as a proxy server, including how to configure client proxy applications such as Mozilla and Microsoft Internet Explorer.