This User's Guide accompanies the TCP/IP
package for the QNX operating system (4.23 or later) and is
intended for both end-users and developers.
This guide is designed as a supplement to the companion book
TCP/IP Network Administration, which provides a
generic treatment of the subject of TCP/IP.
This guide contains the following chapters:
- Welcome to TCP/IP for QNX
— introduces you to basic concepts, with examples to
help you plan your network
- Configuration —
discusses setting up TCP/IP clients, servers, and gateways;
also contains a section on debugging
- Setting up Mail —
gives a brief overview of Internet mail; topics include
incoming mail, outgoing mail, and MX records
- Remote Printing
Utilities — provides a summary of the
lpd utilities; also includes a troubleshooting
table of error messages
- What is NFS? — describes NFS,
the Network File System, for transparently accessing files
on other systems
- TCP/IP Utilities —
describes all the utilities, servers, and applications (in
alphabetical order)
- TCP/IP Configuration Files — describes
the key configuration files (also in alphabetical order)
You'll also find these appendixes:
We assume that QNX is already installed and running on
your machine. If not, you should refer to the QNX
Installation & Configuration manual.