Managing NFS and NIS, 2nd Edition - Mike Eisler [2]
12.5. Stronger security for NFS
12.5.1. Security services
12.5.2. Brief introduction to cryptography
12.5.3. NFS and IPSec
12.5.4. AUTH_DH: Diffie-Hellman authentication
12.5.5. RPCSEC_GSS: Generic security services for RPC
12.5.6. Planning a transition from NFS/sys to stronger NFS security
12.5.7. NFS security futures
12.6. Viruses
13. Network Diagnostic and Administrative Tools
13.1. Broadcast addresses
13.2. MAC and IP layer tools
13.2.1. ifconfig: interface configuration
13.2.2. Subnetwork masks
13.2.3. IP to MAC address mappings
13.2.4. Using ping to check network connectivity
13.2.5. Gauging Ethernet interface capacity
13.3. Remote procedure call tools
13.3.1. RPC mechanics
13.3.2. RPC registration
13.3.3. Debugging RPC problems
13.4. NIS tools
13.4.1. Key lookup
13.4.2. Displaying and analyzing client bindings
13.4.3. Other NIS map information
13.4.4. Setting initial client bindings
13.4.5. Modifying client bindings
13.5. Network analyzers
13.5.1. snoop
13.5.2. ethereal / tethereal
13.5.3. Capture filters
13.5.4. Read filters
14. NFS Diagnostic Tools
14.1. NFS administration tools
14.2. NFS statistics
14.2.1. I/O statistics
14.3. snoop
14.3.1. Useful filters
14.4. Publicly available diagnostics
14.4.1. ethereal / tethereal
14.4.2. Useful filters
14.4.3. NFSWATCH
14.4.4. nfsbug
14.4.5. SATAN
14.5. Version 2 and Version 3 differences
14.6. NFS server logging
14.6.1. NFS server logging mechanics
14.6.2. Enabling NFS server logging
14.6.3. NFS server logging configuration
14.6.4. The nfslogd daemon
14.6.5. Filehandle to path mapping
14.6.6. NFS log cycling
14.6.7. Manipulating NFS log files
14.6.8. Other configuration parameters
14.6.9. Disabling NFS server logging
14.7. Time synchronization
15. Debugging Network Problems
15.1. Duplicate ARP replies
15.2. Renegade NIS server
15.3. Boot parameter confusion
15.4. Incorrect directory content caching
15.5. Incorrect mount point permissions
15.6. Asynchronous NFS error messages
16. Server-Side Performance Tuning
16.1. Characterization of NFS behavior
16.2. Measuring performance
16.3. Benchmarking
16.4. Identifying NFS performance bottlenecks
16.4.1. Problem areas
16.4.2. Throughput
16.4.3. Locating bottlenecks
16.5. Server tuning
16.5.1. CPU loading
16.5.2. NFS server threads
16.5.3. Memory usage
16.5.4. Disk and filesystem throughput
16.5.5. Kernel configuration
16.5.6. Cross-mounting filesystems
16.5.7. Multihomed servers
17. Network Performance Analysis
17.1. Network congestion and network interfaces
17.1.1. Local network interface
17.1.2. Collisions and network saturation
17.2. Network partitioning hardware
17.3. Network infrastructure
17.3.1. Switched networks
17.3.2. ATM and FDDI networks
17.4. Impact of partitioning
17.4.1. NIS in a partitioned network
17.4.2. Effects on diskless nodes
17.5. Protocol filtering
18. Client-Side Performance Tuning
18.1. Slow server compensation
18.1.1. Identifying NFS retransmissions
18.1.2. Timeout period calculation
18.1.3. Retransmission rate thresholds
18.1.4. NFS over TCP is your friend
18.2. Soft mount issues
18.3. Adjusting for network reliability problems
18.4. NFS over wide-area networks
18.5. NFS async thread tuning
18.6. Attribute caching
18.7. Mount point constructions
18.8. Stale filehandles
A. IP Packet Routing
A.1. Routers and their routing tables
A.2. Static routing
B. NFS Problem Diagnosis
B.1. NFS server problems
B.2. NFS client problems
B.3. NFS errno values
C. Tunable Parameters
Managing NFS and NIS, 2nd Edition
Mike Eisler
Ricardo Labiaga
Hal Stern
Editor
Mike Loukides
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