Bering-uClibc 4.x - User Guide

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This guide provides information for Installers, Administrators and general Users of Bering-uClibc 4.x. Earlier versions of Bering-uClibc had a separate Installation Guide and User's Guide but those documents have been combined together for Bering-uClibc 4.x. (There is still a separate Developer Guide though.)

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Chapters

1. Introduction
2. Hardware Requirements
3. Installing the Disk Image
4. Basic Configuration
   • Booting for the First Time
   • Basic System Configuration
   • LEAF Packages
   • Log Files
   • Using Dropbear - a small SSH replacement
5. IPv4 Networking
   • External Network Connections
   • Internal Network Connections
   • Configure Shorewall
   • Configure Dnsmasq
6. IPv6 Networking
   • External Network Connections
   • Internal Network Connections
   • Configure Shorewall6
   • Configure Radvd
7. Advanced Topics
   • Setting Up a Client for Dynamic DNS
   • Setting Up a Wireless Access Point
   • Setting Up a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
   • Setting Up a VOIP Server
   • Setting Up a File Server
   • Setting Up Zeroconf Networking
   • Setting Up Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)

Appendices

1. Upgrading from Bering-uClibc 3.x
   • Add reference to http://www.shorewall.net/LennyToSqueeze.html for advice on Shorewall configuration upgrade (actually 4.0 to 4.4 but very useful)
2. Overview of the Startup Sequence
   • [SYS|ISO|PXE]LINUX and the relevant configuration file
   • Linux kernel, kernel arguments and initrd
   • Bering-uClibc LINUXRC (/init), LEAFCFG, PKGPATH
   • inittab (especially for serial consoles)
   • /etc/rc?.d/*
3. Hardware-Specific Guides
   • PC Engines WRAP - need to copy content from http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/bucu-sc1100.html
   • PC Engines ALIX
   • Soekris Engineering net4501