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Index: M

M command (sendmail): Defining Mailers (TCP/IP Network Administration)
m configuration option (Linux kernel): Linux Kernel Configuration (TCP/IP Network Administration)
M flag (Linux routing table): The Routing Table (TCP/IP Network Administration)
m4 macros
- sendmail compiler options: Compiling sendmail (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- sendmail configuration files: sendmail Macros (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- - creating: Building a sendmail.cf with m4 macros (TCP/IP Network Administration)
Ethm option (Net-SNMP): Common Command-Line Arguments (Essential SNMP)
- snmpwalk (Essential SNMP)
Ethm option (snmpdelta): snmpdelta (Essential SNMP)
MAC addresses
- ARP tables: arp (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- - IP Address Management (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- arping tool: arping (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- arpwatch tool: arpwatch (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- ntop results: Web mode (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- OUIs and: arp (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- RMON statistics: RMON (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- switches and: Switch Security (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
MAC layer in protocol stack: SNMP and UDP (Essential SNMP)
MAC (Media Access Control): Ethernet addresses (Managing NFS and NIS)
- addresses: Ethernet addresses (Managing NFS and NIS)
- - AdminSuite and: Setting up a diskless client (Managing NFS and NIS)
  - IP addresses: IP host addresses (Managing NFS and NIS)
  - IP mapping: IP to MAC address mappings (Managing NFS and NIS)
- broadcast addresses: Broadcast addresses (Managing NFS and NIS)
- cryptography and: One-way hash functions and MACs (Managing NFS and NIS)
- layer tools: MAC and IP layer tools (Managing NFS and NIS)
- - ifconfig: ifconfig: interface configuration (Managing NFS and NIS)
MAC (Message Authentication Code): Acknowledgments (SSH, The Secure Shell)
- MAC algorithms (SSH, The Secure Shell)
- algorithms: Integrity checking (SSH, The Secure Shell)
- - MAC algorithms (SSH, The Secure Shell)
- keywords, table of: MAC algorithms (SSH, The Secure Shell)
Mac OS: Supporting Software (Essential SNMP)
machine
- auditing (see audit, security)
- backing up: Backing Up Your Filesystems (Building Internet Firewalls)
- choosing: Choosing a Machine (Building Internet Firewalls)
- configuring: Reconfiguring for Production (Building Internet Firewalls)
- - on Unix/Linux: Reconfiguring for Production (Building Internet Firewalls)
- connecting: Connecting the Machine (Building Internet Firewalls)
- disconnecting or shutting down: Planning for Disconnecting or Shutting Down Machines (Building Internet Firewalls)
- hardening: Building a Bastion Host (Building Internet Firewalls)
- hardware (see hardware)
- physical location of: Choosing a Physical Location (Building Internet Firewalls)
- securing: Securing the Machine (Building Internet Firewalls)
- - Controlling Unsafe Configurations (Building Internet Firewalls)
  - on Unix/Linux: Securing Unix (Building Internet Firewalls)
  - on Windows: Securing Windows (Building Internet Firewalls)
- software (see software)
- speed of: How Fast a Machine? (Building Internet Firewalls)
Macintosh SSH ports
- F-Secure SSH Client: F-Secure SSH Client (Windows, Macintosh) (SSH, The Secure Shell)
- NiftyTelnet SSH: NiftyTelnet SSH (Macintosh) (SSH, The Secure Shell)
Macintosh version of vnc tool: vnc (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
macof flooding tool: Switch Security (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
macros
- configuration file: MAILER (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- define: define (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- DNS: DOMAIN (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- DOMAIN source file: DOMAIN (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- FEATURE: FEATURE (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- m4: sendmail Macros (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- OSTYPE: OSTYPE (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- sendmail, conditionals: Conditionals (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- sendmail.cf file: sendmail Macros (TCP/IP Network Administration)
magazines, recommended: Sources of Information (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
magic cookie: Using DNS with NIS (DNS and Bind)
mail (see email)
- nslookup and dig (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
mail delivery agent (MDA): Electronic Mail (Building Internet Firewalls)
mail destination (MD) records: MX Records (DNS and Bind)
mail exchanger queries: BIND 4.9 and 8 statistics (DNS and Bind)
mail exchangers: MX Records (DNS and Bind)
- A records and: The MX Algorithm (DNS and Bind)
- canonical domain name and: The MX Algorithm (DNS and Bind)
mail forwarder (MF) records: MX Records (DNS and Bind)
mail gateways: Planning Your Mail System (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mail11 mailer: MAILER (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mail message prints twice: General Problems (SSH, The Secure Shell)
mail queue
- checking status: OpenView's Extensible Agent (Essential SNMP)
- summarizing messages in: OpenView's Extensible Agent (Essential SNMP)
mail relay servers, sendmail features: DOMAIN (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mail relays: Planning Your Mail System (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mail routing: DNS and Electronic Mail (DNS and Bind)
- loops, avoiding: MX Records (DNS and Bind)
- - The MX Algorithm (DNS and Bind)
mail servers: Planning Your Mail System (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- IMAP servers, configuring: IMAP Server (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- POP servers, configuring: POP Server (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- checking status: Port Monitor (Essential SNMP)
- evaluating: Junk mail (Building Internet Firewalls)
mail services: Mail Services (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- POP: Post Office Protocol (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mail transfer agent (MTA): Electronic Mail (Building Internet Firewalls)
mail user agent (MUA): Electronic Mail (Building Internet Firewalls)
Mailer Definitions (generic-linux.cf section): General sendmail.cf Structure (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mailer flags, sendmail: sendmail Mailer Flags (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MAILER macro (sendmail): Building a sendmail.cf with m4 macros (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- sendmail Macros (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MAILER source file: MAILER (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MAILER_DEFINITIONS macro (sendmail): sendmail Macros (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mailers: DNS and Electronic Mail (DNS and Bind)
mailers (sendmail): Building a sendmail.cf with m4 macros (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- definition fields: Defining Mailers (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- definitions: Some common mailer definitions (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- M command: Defining Mailers (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mailertable (sendmail database feature): FEATURE (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MAIL_FILTER macro (sendmail): sendmail Macros (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mailing lists: Sources of Information (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- dhcpd: Compiling dhcpd (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- keeping current: Mailing lists (Building Internet Firewalls)
- - Mailing Lists (Building Internet Firewalls)
maintain-ixfr-base option (named): The options Statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
maintain-ixfr-base substatement: BIND 8 IXFR Configuration (DNS and Bind)
maintaining firewalls: Maintaining Firewalls (Building Internet Firewalls)
maintaining maps: The ypserv daemon (Managing NFS and NIS)
maintenance
- cabling: Maintaining Existing Cabling (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- costs: Economic considerations (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
maintenance category: BIND 8 categories (DNS and Bind)
maintenance hand tools: Diagnostic Tools (TCP/IP Network Administration)
maintenance intervals: Maintenance Intervals (DNS and Bind)
major timeouts: Timeout period calculation (Managing NFS and NIS)
make command, variations of: Linux Kernel Configuration (TCP/IP Network Administration)
make config command: Linux Kernel Configuration (TCP/IP Network Administration)
make menu config command: Linux Kernel Configuration (TCP/IP Network Administration)
make process, accelerated: File attribute caching (Managing NFS and NIS)
make-ssh-known-hosts: Creating the Serverwide Known-Hosts File (SSH, The Secure Shell)
- command-line flags: make-ssh-known-hosts command-line flags (SSH, The Secure Shell)
make xconfig command: Linux Kernel Configuration (TCP/IP Network Administration)
make-zones DNS tool: Other tools (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
makedbm utility: Map naming (Managing NFS and NIS)
Makefile
- dependencies: Map file dependencies (Managing NFS and NIS)
- passwd map contents: Installing the NIS master server (Managing NFS and NIS)
makefiles: Generic Installs (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- Sources of Information (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
makemap command (sendmail): Building a sendmail.cf with m4 macros (TCP/IP Network Administration)
malformed response message: Common Syslog Messages (DNS and Bind)
man-in-the-middle attacks: Known Hosts (SSH, The Secure Shell)
- Authentication (SSH, The Secure Shell)
- Man-in-the-Middle Attacks (SSH, The Secure Shell)
- ssh (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
man-in-the-middle forgery: Risks of Filtering by Source Address (Building Internet Firewalls)
manageable devices: In the End (Essential SNMP)
managed hubs and switches: Mapping or Diagramming (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
managed objects: The Structure of Management Information and MIBS (Essential SNMP)
- The Structure of Management Information (Essential SNMP)
- The Structure of Management Information (Essential SNMP)
- (see also OIDs)
- adding to data collections: Designing collections (Essential SNMP)
- datatypes
- - SMIv2: Extensions to the SMI in Version 2 (Essential SNMP)
- hierarchy: Naming OIDs (Essential SNMP)
- MIB extensions in SMIv2: Extensions to the SMI in Version 2 (Essential SNMP)
- OIDs
- - defining: Defining OIDs (Essential SNMP)
  - naming: Naming OIDs (Essential SNMP)
- polling by type: OpenView Graphing (Essential SNMP)
- scalar and tabular objects: The get Operation (Essential SNMP)
- variable bindings: The get Operation (Essential SNMP)
- - SNMP Traps (Essential SNMP)
- variable sets: Look Ahead (Essential SNMP)
management groups (MIB-II): Closer Look at MIB-II (Essential SNMP)
management information (see managed objects)
Management Information Bases (see MIBs)
- Overview of SNMP (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
management stations (see NMSs)
management tools: Administrative Services (Building Internet Firewalls)
manager-to-manager communication: SNMP inform (Essential SNMP)
managers, SNMP: Overview of SNMP (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- Overview of SNMP (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- Overview of SNMP (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
managing accounts: Managing Your Accounts (Building Internet Firewalls)
managing networks
- before-and-after scenarios: Before and After SNMP (Essential SNMP)
- monitoring: Network Management and Monitoring (Essential SNMP)
- SNMP role in: Network Management and Monitoring (Essential SNMP)
- staffing considerations: Human Considerations (Essential SNMP)
mandatory file locking: Mandatory versus advisory locking (Managing NFS and NIS)
- NFS: Mandatory locking and NFS (Managing NFS and NIS)
manual entries
- in ARP tables: arp (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- in routing tables: netstat (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
manual routing: Common Routing Configurations (TCP/IP Network Administration)
manual server invocation: Running the Server (SSH, The Secure Shell)
manually allocating addresses (DHCP): Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (TCP/IP Network Administration)
manufacturers (see vendors)
many-answers format: More efficient zone transfers (DNS and Bind)
map files
- source code, control over: Source code control for map files (Managing NFS and NIS)
- updating: Managing map files (Managing NFS and NIS)
map maintenance calls: The ypserv daemon (Managing NFS and NIS)
map transfers
- regular transfers: Regular map transfers (Managing NFS and NIS)
- servers, existing: Changing NIS master servers (Managing NFS and NIS)
- source modification and: Map distribution (Managing NFS and NIS)
MAPI (Microsoft Messaging API): Microsoft Messaging API (MAPI) (Building Internet Firewalls)
mapping: Setting Up Zone Data (DNS and Bind)
- address-to-name: Mapping Addresses to Names (DNS and Bind)
- - PTR Records (DNS and Bind)
- devices and networks: Mapping or Diagramming (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- - bottleneck analysis and: Bottleneck analysis (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
  - features in network management software: Characteristics of Management Software (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
  - manually drawing maps: Drawing maps with tkined (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
  - Microsoft Windows software: Other Tools for Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
  - network addresses: arp (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
  - tkined tool: tkined (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
  - types of tools: Discovery and Mapping Tools (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- h2n utility for (see utility)
- MIB trees: Examining MIBs (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- name-to-address: Address and Alias Records (DNS and Bind)
- network names and numbers: Network Names and Numbers (DNS and Bind)
- traffic: tcptrace (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- - xplot (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
  - cricket tool: cricket (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
  - getif tool: getif revisited (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
  - mrtg tool: mrtg (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
  - netmon tool: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
  - patterns: Web mode (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
mapping users to UIDs/GIDs (Linux exports file): The /etc/exports file (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MAPPING_UPDATE_INTERVAL parameter, nfslogd daemon: Other configuration parameters (Managing NFS and NIS)
maps: Masters, slaves, and clients (Managing NFS and NIS)
- Map files (Managing NFS and NIS)
- auto_home: NFS Automounter (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- automounter
- - ampersand (&): Key substitutions (Managing NFS and NIS)
  - direct: Direct maps (Managing NFS and NIS)
  - - Updating NIS-managed automount maps (Managing NFS and NIS)
    - Conversion of direct maps (Managing NFS and NIS)
  - direct maps: Automounter maps (Managing NFS and NIS)
  - executable: Executable indirect maps (Managing NFS and NIS)
  - indirect: Multiple indirection (Managing NFS and NIS)
  - indirect maps: Indirect maps (Managing NFS and NIS)
  - master: Invocation and the master map (Managing NFS and NIS)
  - master map: Automounter maps (Managing NFS and NIS)
  - NIS-managed, updating: Updating NIS-managed automount maps (Managing NFS and NIS)
  - null: The null map (Managing NFS and NIS)
  - substitutions: Key and variable substitutions (Managing NFS and NIS)
- automounter configuration: NFS Automounter (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- changes, accepting: Password file updates (Managing NFS and NIS)
- copying: Map files (Managing NFS and NIS)
- DBM database and: Map files (Managing NFS and NIS)
- definition of: Masters, slaves, and clients (Managing NFS and NIS)
- dependencies: Map file dependencies (Managing NFS and NIS)
- distribution: Map distribution (Managing NFS and NIS)
- entries, consistency: Map structure (Managing NFS and NIS)
- existence, service requests: The ypserv daemon (Managing NFS and NIS)
- file management: Managing map files (Managing NFS and NIS)
- generating, password files: Map naming (Managing NFS and NIS)
- hosts file: Masters, slaves, and clients (Managing NFS and NIS)
- integrating with local files: Integrating NIS maps with local files (Managing NFS and NIS)
- maintaining: The ypserv daemon (Managing NFS and NIS)
- modification timestamp: Map structure (Managing NFS and NIS)
- moving: Map files (Managing NFS and NIS)
- naming: Map naming (Managing NFS and NIS)
- - data source and: Map naming (Managing NFS and NIS)
- netgroup: Using netgroups (Managing NFS and NIS)
- netgroups: Netgroups (Managing NFS and NIS)
- netid.byname: Files managed under NIS (Managing NFS and NIS)
- netmasks, ifconfig: Subnetwork masks (Managing NFS and NIS)
- NFS RPC calls: NFS RPC procedures (Managing NFS and NIS)
- nicknames: Files managed under NIS (Managing NFS and NIS)
- - Map structure (Managing NFS and NIS)
- NIS: Network Information Service (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- - ASCII source file: Installing NIS slave servers (Managing NFS and NIS)
  - automounter and: Mixing NIS and files in the same map (Managing NFS and NIS)
  - map information: Other NIS map information (Managing NFS and NIS)
- OpenView
- - colors: Few Words About NNM Map Colors (Essential SNMP)
  - Home map: Running NNM (Essential SNMP)
  - removing nodes: FilterExpressions (Essential SNMP)
  - - FilterExpressions (Essential SNMP)
  - Root map: Running NNM (Essential SNMP)
  - of unmanaged objects: The netmon Process (Essential SNMP)
  - zooming: SNMPc's Map (Essential SNMP)
- passwd.byname: Files managed under NIS (Managing NFS and NIS)
- private: Making NIS more secure (Managing NFS and NIS)
- published mapping: IP to MAC address mappings (Managing NFS and NIS)
- read-only access: Password file updates (Managing NFS and NIS)
- rebuilding: Map distribution (Managing NFS and NIS)
- SCCS, disadvantages: Source code control for map files (Managing NFS and NIS)
- SNMPc
- - Root map: SNMPc's Map (Essential SNMP)
  - submaps: SNMPc's Map (Essential SNMP)
  - zooming: Running NNM (Essential SNMP)
- source files: Map distribution (Managing NFS and NIS)
- - alternates: Using alternate map source files (Managing NFS and NIS)
- structure: Map structure (Managing NFS and NIS)
- transfers: The ypserv daemon (Managing NFS and NIS)
- - ypxrf tool: Regular map transfers (Managing NFS and NIS)
- working with: Working with the maps (Managing NFS and NIS)
- ypinit and: Installing the NIS master server (Managing NFS and NIS)
- ypservers: Installing the NIS master server (Managing NFS and NIS)
- see also domains: Masters, slaves, and clients (Managing NFS and NIS)
mark (gated): Options Statements (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MARR (minimal acceptable rate of return): Economic considerations (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
martians: Obtaining an IP Address (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- gated: Definition Statements (TCP/IP Network Administration)
masks (see subnet)
masks, subnetwork: Subnetwork masks (Managing NFS and NIS)
MASQUERADE_AS (sendmail macro): sendmail Macros (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- DOMAIN (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MASQUERADE_DOMAIN (sendmail macro): sendmail Macros (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- DOMAIN (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE (sendmail macro): sendmail Macros (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- DOMAIN (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MASQUERADE_EXCEPTION (sendmail macro): sendmail Macros (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- DOMAIN (TCP/IP Network Administration)
masquerading: Masquerading (Building Internet Firewalls)
- sendmail features: DOMAIN (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- sendmail macros: DOMAIN (TCP/IP Network Administration)
master agents
- OpenView snmpdm: Extensible SNMP Agents (Essential SNMP)
- - OpenView's Extensible Agent (Essential SNMP)
- stopping and starting: HP OpenView Agent for HP-UX and Solaris (Essential SNMP)
- and subagents: Look Ahead (Essential SNMP)
master browser, on Microsoft networks: Master browser (Building Internet Firewalls)
master files (see zone data files)
master map, automounter: Automounter maps (Managing NFS and NIS)
- Invocation and the master map (Managing NFS and NIS)
- command-line options: Command-line options (Managing NFS and NIS)
- timeouts: Tuning timeout values (Managing NFS and NIS)
master map configuration file (automounter): NFS Automounter (TCP/IP Network Administration)
master name server: BIND Configurations (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- configuration: Master and slave server configurations (TCP/IP Network Administration)
master servers: Masters, slaves, and clients (Managing NFS and NIS)
- Multiple Master Servers (DNS and Bind)
- BIND, Resolvers, and named (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- checking for existence: Installing the NIS master server (Managing NFS and NIS)
- creating: Installing the NIS master server (Managing NFS and NIS)
- - Installing the NIS master server (Managing NFS and NIS)
- global changes and: Masters, slaves, and clients (Managing NFS and NIS)
- hosts, changing: Changing NIS master servers (Managing NFS and NIS)
- hosts file, modifying: Masters, slaves, and clients (Managing NFS and NIS)
- NIS, installing: Installing the NIS master server (Managing NFS and NIS)
- number of: Installing the NIS master server (Managing NFS and NIS)
- unavailable: Installing the NIS master server (Managing NFS and NIS)
- ypxrf tool: Regular map transfers (Managing NFS and NIS)
masters substatement: Configuring the IPv4 Transport (DNS and Bind)
match-clients view substatement: Views (DNS and Bind)
matched packets (RMON): RMON (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
matches, key matches: Trace of a key match (Managing NFS and NIS)
matching patterns in log files: Log File Management (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
Mathur Port: Table of Products (SSH, The Secure Shell)
max-cache-ttl (named): The BIND 9 options statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
max-ixfr-log-size option (named): The options Statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
max-lease-time parameter (dhcpd): dhcpd.conf (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- Configuration Parameters (TCP/IP Network Administration)
max log size parameter (smb.config file): Configuring a Samba Server (TCP/IP Network Administration)
max-ncache-ttl option (named): The options Statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
max-ncache-ttl options substatement: TTLs (DNS and Bind)
max-refresh-time (named): The BIND 9 options statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
max-refresh-time substatement: Limiting the frequency of zone transfers (DNS and Bind)
max-repetitions fields (get-bulk operations): The get-bulk Operation (Essential SNMP)
max-retry-time (named): The BIND 9 options statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
max-retry-time substatement: Limiting the frequency of zone transfers (DNS and Bind)
max-transfer-idle-in (named): The BIND 9 options statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
max-transfer-idle-in substatement: Limiting the duration of a zone transfer (DNS and Bind)
max-transfer-idle-out (named): The BIND 9 options statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
max-transfer-idle-out substatement: Limiting the duration of a zone transfer (DNS and Bind)
max-transfer-time-in option (named): The options Statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
max-transfer-time-in substatement: Limiting the duration of a zone transfer (DNS and Bind)
max-transfer-time-out (named): The BIND 9 options statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
max-transfer-time-out substatement: Limiting the duration of a zone transfer (DNS and Bind)
maxadvinterval parameter (gated): The routerdiscovery Statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MaxBroadcastsPerSecond: Discovering other servers (SSH, The Secure Shell)
MaxClients directive (Apache): Managing the Swarm (TCP/IP Network Administration)
maxconnect option (pppd): The PPP Daemon (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MaxConnections: TCP/IP support (SSH, The Secure Shell)
- Limiting simultaneous connections (SSH, The Secure Shell)
maxfail option (pppd): The PPP Daemon (TCP/IP Network Administration)
maximum number of hops: Options (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
maximum transmission unit (see MTU)
Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU): Options (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
MaxKeepAliveRequests directive (Apache): Performance Tuning Directives (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MAX_LOGS_PRESERVE parameter, nfslogd daemon: Other configuration parameters (Managing NFS and NIS)
MaxRequestsPerChild directive (Apache): Managing the Swarm (TCP/IP Network Administration)
Maxsize field (sendmail): Defining Mailers (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MaxSpareServers directive (Apache): Managing the Swarm (TCP/IP Network Administration)
maxup parameter (gated): The egp Statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MAXWEEKS (passwd file value): The Shadow Password File (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MB records: Where in the World Do I Fit? (DNS and Bind)
- Types (DNS and Bind)
MBONE (Multicast backBONE): IPv4 address classes (Managing NFS and NIS)
MD5 algorithm: One-Way Hash Functions (DNS and Bind)
- MD5 (SSH, The Secure Shell)
- The SNMPv3 Engine (Essential SNMP)
- Configuring SNMPv3 for a Cisco Router (Essential SNMP)
- Configuring SNMPv3 for Net-SNMP (Essential SNMP)
MD and MF records: Types (DNS and Bind)
MD records: MX Records (DNS and Bind)
MDA (mail delivery agent): Electronic Mail (Building Internet Firewalls)
measuring performance (see performance measurement)
Media Access Control (see MAC)
Medium Access Control (MAC) layer in protocol stack: SNMP and UDP (Essential SNMP)
memory: What Hardware Configuration? (Building Internet Firewalls)
- changing data segment size and: Changing the data segment size limit (DNS and Bind)
- domain name storage and: Domain Name Storage (DNS and Bind)
- graphing usage: MRTG (Essential SNMP)
- for logs: Managing Your Disk Space (Building Internet Firewalls)
- - What Should You Watch For? (Building Internet Firewalls)
- managing: Managing Your Disk Space (Building Internet Firewalls)
- NMS requirements: Hardware Considerations (Essential SNMP)
- - Hardware Considerations (Essential SNMP)
- resource limits and: Resource Limits (DNS and Bind)
- SNMP management: Host Management (Essential SNMP)
- system totals: Host Management Revisited (Essential SNMP)
- types for agents: Extensions to the SMI in Version 2 (Essential SNMP)
- utilization: Capacity Planning (DNS and Bind)
memory locations in adapter settings: Testing Adapters (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
memory usage
- server, bottlenecks: Problem areas (Managing NFS and NIS)
- server performance tuning: Memory usage (Managing NFS and NIS)
- in SNMP agent information: Agents and traps (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
memstatistics-file option (named): The options Statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
Mentor Technologies, Inc.: Scanning Tools (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
Menubars (NNM): Adding a Menu to NNM (Essential SNMP)
menus
- adding to OpenView: Adding a Menu to NNM (Essential SNMP)
- customizing in SNMPc: Castle Rock's SNMPc (Essential SNMP)
- precedence numbers in: Adding a Menu to NNM (Essential SNMP)
- trigger characters in: Adding a Menu to NNM (Essential SNMP)
Menus (NNM): Adding a Menu to NNM (Essential SNMP)
merging interior and exterior routers: It's OK to Merge the Interior Router and the Exterior Router (Building Internet Firewalls)
merging tcpdump files: tcpslice (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
Merit Network Inc.: Generic Sources (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
Message Authentication Code (see MAC)
message compression, resource record data and: Data Format (DNS and Bind)
message digests: One-Way Hash Functions (DNS and Bind)
- Cryptographic Hashes, Checksums, and Message Digests (Building Internet Firewalls)
message format: Message Format (DNS and Bind)
message (MIME data): Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (TCP/IP Network Administration)
message of the day (motd): Welcome Messages for the User (SSH, The Secure Shell)
message of the day prints twice: General Problems (SSH, The Secure Shell)
Message Precedence (generic-linux.cf section): General sendmail.cf Structure (TCP/IP Network Administration)
Message Processing Model: SNMPv3 Textual Conventions (Essential SNMP)
Message Processing Subsystem (SNMPv3 engine): The SNMPv3 Engine (Essential SNMP)
messages: Check for Syslog Errors (DNS and Bind)
- (see also error messages)
- boottime: Kernel (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- format of: Showing the Query and Response Messages (DNS and Bind)
- - DNS Message Format (DNS and Bind)
  - DNS Messages (DNS and Bind)
  - controlling (BIND 8/9): Data formatting for all channels (DNS and Bind)
- ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- logging (BIND 8/9): Logging in BIND 8 and 9 (DNS and Bind)
- Perl objects for: Packet Objects (DNS and Bind)
- sending with NNM: Using NNM for Communications (Essential SNMP)
- size capabilities of agents: The get-bulk Operation (Essential SNMP)
- SNMP messages: Overview of SNMP (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- starting: Check for Syslog Errors (DNS and Bind)
- syslog messages: Configuring syslog (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- UDP: TCP/IP Protocol Architecture (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- viewing: Viewing all category messages (DNS and Bind)
meta-packets, and filtering: It Should Allow Rules Based on Any Header or Meta-Packet Criteria (Building Internet Firewalls)
metacharacters, for port specification: Serverwide configuration (SSH, The Secure Shell)
metering in network management software: Characteristics of Management Software (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
metric argument (route command): Building a Static Routing Table (TCP/IP Network Administration)
Metric field (Linux routing table): The Routing Table (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- The Routing Table (TCP/IP Network Administration)
metric keyword (routed command): Running RIP with routed (TCP/IP Network Administration)
metric (routing)
- changing, ifconfig command: Metric (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- gated preference values: gated's Preference Value (TCP/IP Network Administration)
metricout parameter
- gated bgp statement: The bgp Statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- gated egp statement: The egp Statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
metrics in performance measurement: General steps (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
Metro State SSH (MSSH): Table of Products (SSH, The Secure Shell)
MF records: MX Records (DNS and Bind)
MG records: Where in the World Do I Fit? (DNS and Bind)
- Types (DNS and Bind)
MGEN traffic tool set: MGEN (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- Sources for Tools (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
mib-2 subtree: Closer Look at MIB-II (Essential SNMP)
MIB Browser (OpenView): Using HP OpenView to Retrieve Values (Essential SNMP)
- Walking the MIB Tree with OpenView (Essential SNMP)
MIBs (Management Information Bases): The Structure of Management Information and MIBS (Essential SNMP)
- Cisco MIBs: snmpwalk (Essential SNMP)
- components of: Defining OIDs (Essential SNMP)
- Concise MIB Definition: Defining OIDs (Essential SNMP)
- copying: snmpwalk (Essential SNMP)
- counting implemented objects in devices: Walking the MIB Tree with OpenView (Essential SNMP)
- displaying with getif: SNMP Tools (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- - getif revisited (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- draft and proposed standards: The Structure of Management Information and MIBS (Essential SNMP)
- examining in tkined: Examining MIBs (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- extensible agents and: Extensible SNMP Agents (Essential SNMP)
- - Extensibility for Unix and Windows (Essential SNMP)
  - Extensibility for Unix and Windows (Essential SNMP)
- files as arguments in scripts: snmpMIB_to_OID( ) (Essential SNMP)
- groups in: Overview of SNMP (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- Host Resources MIB: Host Management (Essential SNMP)
- - Host Management Revisited (Essential SNMP)
- installation: Configuration and options (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- - SNMP traps (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- listing traps: Traps (Essential SNMP)
- lists of OIDs in: snmptranslate (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- loading: Loading MIBs into OpenView (Essential SNMP)
- - Loading MIBs into SNMPc (Essential SNMP)
  - Net-SNMP and MIB Files (Essential SNMP)
  - Common Command-Line Arguments (Essential SNMP)
- managed objects and datatypes in: Defining OIDs (Essential SNMP)
- media-specific: Closer Look at MIB-II (Essential SNMP)
- MIB-II: The Structure of Management Information and MIBS (Essential SNMP)
- - components of files: Defining OIDs (Essential SNMP)
  - objects: Using Input and Output Octets (Essential SNMP)
  - subtrees in: Closer Look at MIB-II (Essential SNMP)
- MIB regions: Look Ahead (Essential SNMP)
- name lookups: snmpget (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- object-value pairs (see variable bindings)
- OIDs and instance identifiers: The get Operation (Essential SNMP)
- parsing: snmpQueue_MIB_File( ) (Essential SNMP)
- Perl management routines: MIB Management Routines (Essential SNMP)
- private: Naming OIDs (Essential SNMP)
- - What Does SNMP-Compatible Really Mean? (Essential SNMP)
  - Extensibility for Unix and Windows (Essential SNMP)
- private or enterprise MIBs: Overview of SNMP (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- - snmptranslate (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
  - Examining MIBs (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- proprietary: The Structure of Management Information and MIBS (Essential SNMP)
- recompiling: Extensibility for Unix and Windows (Essential SNMP)
- RMON MIB: Brief Introduction to Remote Monitoring (RMON) (Essential SNMP)
- - Remote Monitoring Revisited (Essential SNMP)
  - RMON (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- searching directories for: Common Command-Line Arguments (Essential SNMP)
- sequences in: Defining OIDs (Essential SNMP)
- SNMP usage: Overview of SNMP (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- tabular data definitions: Tables (Essential SNMP)
- vendor lists: Getting More Information (Essential SNMP)
- vendor-specific: Defining OIDs (Essential SNMP)
- walking branches: Retrieving Multiple MIB Values (Essential SNMP)
- - Walking the MIB Tree with OpenView (Essential SNMP)
Micromuse: Supporting Software (Essential SNMP)
Microsoft (see entries at Windows)
Microsoft DNS server, disabling: Specific Windows Services to Disable (Building Internet Firewalls)
Microsoft Exchange: Electronic Mail (Building Internet Firewalls)
- Microsoft Exchange (Building Internet Firewalls)
- Other Tools for Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
Microsoft Internet Explorer (see Internet Explorer)
Microsoft Messaging API (MAPI): Microsoft Messaging API (MAPI) (Building Internet Firewalls)
Microsoft networks
- browser roles: Domain master browser (Building Internet Firewalls)
- common security problems in: Remote Graphic Interfaces for Microsoft Operating Systems (Building Internet Firewalls)
- domains: Domains and Workgroups (Building Internet Firewalls)
- file sharing on: File Sharing for Microsoft Networks (Building Internet Firewalls)
- workgroups: Domains and Workgroups (Building Internet Firewalls)
Microsoft Proxy Server: Using Microsoft Proxy Server (Building Internet Firewalls)
Microsoft RPC: Remote Procedure Call (RPC) (Building Internet Firewalls)
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC) (Building Internet Firewalls)
- Microsoft Exchange (Building Internet Firewalls)
- authentication: Microsoft RPC Authentication (Building Internet Firewalls)
Microsoft SQL Server (see SQL Server)
Microsoft TCP/IP printing services, disabling: Specific Windows Services to Disable (Building Internet Firewalls)
Microsoft Terminal Server: Other Options (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
Microsoft Terminal Server/Terminal Services: Microsoft Terminal Server and Terminal Services (Building Internet Firewalls)
Microsoft Visio: Other Tools for Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
Microsoft Windows (see Windows 9x/NT/2000 operating systems)
- F-Secure SSH Client: F-Secure SSH Client (Windows, Macintosh) (SSH, The Secure Shell)
- SecureCRT SSH Client: SecureCRT (Windows) (SSH, The Secure Shell)
- SSH clients for: SSH1 Port by Sergey Okhapkin (Windows) (SSH, The Secure Shell)
Microsoft Windows systems
- application-level protocol tools: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- tutorials and resources: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- connectivity testing: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- - Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- device monitoring tools: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- documenting troubleshooting steps in: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- host configuration: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- inconsistent or contradictory packets and: Stack Fingerprinting (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- integrity checkers: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- load generators: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- logging applications: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- NET SNMP: NET SNMP (UCD SNMP) (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- network benchmark programs: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- network management tools: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- packet analysis: ethereal (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- packet capture tools: tcpdump (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- - Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- performance measurement: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- - Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- ping tools: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- point-monitoring tools: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- screen captures: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- SNMP options: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- ssh tool: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- syslog versions: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- tcpdump tool: tcpdump (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- time synchronization: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- tracert tool: Complications with traceroute (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- vnc tool: vnc (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
mil domain: Top-Level Domains (DNS and Bind)
- The Domain Hierarchy (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MILNET: TCP/IP and the Internet (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MIME (Multimedia Internet Mail Extensions): Multimedia Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) (Building Internet Firewalls)
- extensions (see S/MIME OpenPGP)
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- defining, Apache: Defining File Types (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- message body type (sendmail): The sendmail Command (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MIME protocol, Presentation Layer: Data Communications Model (TCP/IP Network Administration)
min-refresh-time (named): The BIND 9 options statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
min-refresh-time substatement: Limiting the frequency of zone transfers (DNS and Bind)
min-retry-time (named): The BIND 9 options statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
min-retry-time substatement: Limiting the frequency of zone transfers (DNS and Bind)
min-roots option (named): The options Statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
minadvinterval parameter (gated): The routerdiscovery Statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MindTerm: Table of Products (SSH, The Secure Shell)
MINFO records: Types (DNS and Bind)
minhello parameter (gated): The egp Statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
minicom, troubleshooting modems: Troubleshooting Serial Connections (TCP/IP Network Administration)
minimal acceptable rate of return (MARR): Economic considerations (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
minor timeouts: Timeout period calculation (Managing NFS and NIS)
minpoll parameter (gated): The egp Statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MIN_PROCESSING_SIZE parameter, nfslogd daemon: Other configuration parameters (Managing NFS and NIS)
MinSpareServers directive (Apache): Managing the Swarm (TCP/IP Network Administration)
minus signs (-), in streams: Using External Data (Essential SNMP)
MINWEEKS (passwd file value): The Shadow Password File (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mirrors: Veritas Disk Check (Essential SNMP)
missing
- cache data: Missing Root Hints Data (DNS and Bind)
- PTR records: Added Name to Zone Data File but Forgot to Add PTR Record (DNS and Bind)
- subdomain delegation: Missing Subdomain Delegation (DNS and Bind)
MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1: SSH and authentication spoofing (SSH, The Secure Shell)
- SSH and authentication spoofing (SSH, The Secure Shell)
- insecurity: Problems with X authentication (SSH, The Secure Shell)
Mitchell, Mike: SNMP Support for Perl (Essential SNMP)
mixed (MIME data subtype): Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mkdir: NFS RPC procedures (Managing NFS and NIS)
mkfile swap files, diskless clients: Managing client swap space (Managing NFS and NIS)
mobile code systems: Mobile Code and Web-Related Languages (Building Internet Firewalls)
mobile systems, dynamic address allocation: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (TCP/IP Network Administration)
Mockapetris, Paul
- design of DNS and: The History of the Domain Name System (DNS and Bind)
- JEEVES implementation of DNS and: The History of BIND (DNS and Bind)
- RFC 1035 and: DNS Message Format and Resource Records (DNS and Bind)
mod_auth (Apache module): Improved user authentication (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mode command (dip): Dial-Up PPP (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- The dip Script File (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MODE variable (sendmail): Running sendmail as a Daemon (TCP/IP Network Administration)
modeling system performance: Performance Analysis and Monitoring (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
modem command (dip): The dip Script File (TCP/IP Network Administration)
modem option (pppd): chat (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- The PPP Daemon (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- configuring PPP servers: PPP Server Configuration (TCP/IP Network Administration)
modem pools: Terminal Servers and Modem Pools (Building Internet Firewalls)
modems, troubleshooting: Troubleshooting Serial Connections (TCP/IP Network Administration)
modification timestamps, maps: Map structure (Managing NFS and NIS)
Modify Tool: Delegating an in-addr.arpa Zone (DNS and Bind)
modifying services: Installing and Modifying Services (Building Internet Firewalls)
- on Windows: Installing and Modifying Services (Building Internet Firewalls)
- on Unix: Installing and Modifying Services (Building Internet Firewalls)
MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS macro (sendmail): sendmail Macros (TCP/IP Network Administration)
modlist option (ifconfig command), kernel modules listing: Using Dynamically Loadable Modules (TCP/IP Network Administration)
modprobe command (Linux): Using Dynamically Loadable Modules (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mod_so.c (DSO module): Loading Dynamic Shared Objects (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mod_ssl module (Apache): Using Encryption (TCP/IP Network Administration)
modular syslog tool: Remote logging (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- Sources for Tools (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
module dependencies: Using Dynamically Loadable Modules (TCP/IP Network Administration)
modules
- Apache, user authentication: Improved user authentication (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- arp, options: Using Dynamically Loadable Modules (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- httpd.conf file, dynamically loadable: Loading Dynamic Shared Objects (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- Linux
- - listing: Using Dynamically Loadable Modules (TCP/IP Network Administration)
  - removing: Using Dynamically Loadable Modules (TCP/IP Network Administration)
  - - Using Dynamically Loadable Modules (TCP/IP Network Administration)
modulus, RSA key parameter: Installing a Public Key on an SSH ServerMachine (SSH, The Secure Shell)
mon monitoring tool: Scripts (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- Sources for Tools (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
monitorauthkey parameter (gated): The ospf Statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
monitoring
- security considerations: Know Your System (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- - find command: Checking files (TCP/IP Network Administration)
  - intruder detection: Looking for Trouble (TCP/IP Network Administration)
  - login activity: Checking login activity (TCP/IP Network Administration)
monitoring devices (see device monitoring)
monitoring networks: Network Management and Monitoring (Essential SNMP)
- RMON (see RMON)
- staffing considerations: Human Considerations (Essential SNMP)
monitoring system: Monitoring Your System (Building Internet Firewalls)
- automatically: Consider Using Software to Automate Monitoring (Building Internet Firewalls)
monthly graphs of traffic: mrtg configuration file (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- cricket (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
Moore's Law: Economic considerations (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
Morris worm: What Data Does the Protocol Transfer? (Building Internet Firewalls)
- Does it have any other commands in it? (Building Internet Firewalls)
motd (message of the day): Welcome Messages for the User (SSH, The Secure Shell)
motors, cabling and: Installing New Cabling (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
mount command: Using mount (Managing NFS and NIS)
- The mount command (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- failure of: Resolving mount problems (Managing NFS and NIS)
- NFS filesystems, mounting: Networking Fundamentals (Managing NFS and NIS)
- Solaris: Mount options (Managing NFS and NIS)
mount information, NFS diagnostics: NFS administration tools (Managing NFS and NIS)
mount options, Linux: The vfstab and fstab files (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mount parameters
- retrans: Timeout period calculation (Managing NFS and NIS)
- timeo: Timeout period calculation (Managing NFS and NIS)
mount points
- directories: NFS administration tools (Managing NFS and NIS)
- naming scheme: Mount point constructions (Managing NFS and NIS)
- permissions, incorrect (debugging case study): Incorrect mount point permissions (Managing NFS and NIS)
- stepping-stone: Mount point constructions (Managing NFS and NIS)
- symbolic links and: Mount point constructions (Managing NFS and NIS)
mount points (NFS): NFS (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
mount protocol: Setting up NFS (Managing NFS and NIS)
- background mounts: Backgrounding mounts (Managing NFS and NIS)
mount requests, filehandles and: Pathnames and filehandles (Managing NFS and NIS)
mount table entries: NFS (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
mountall command: The vfstab and fstab files (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mountd: NFS and related services (Building Internet Firewalls)
- NFS Authentication (Building Internet Firewalls)
- Packet Filtering Characteristics of NFS (Building Internet Firewalls)
- NFS Daemons (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- Setting up NFS (Managing NFS and NIS)
- Resolving mount problems (Managing NFS and NIS)
- NFS protocol and implementation (Managing NFS and NIS)
- NFS (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- /etc/dfs/dfstab and: NFS administration tools (Managing NFS and NIS)
mounthost= option (fstab file): The vfstab and fstab files (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mounting dataless clients: Dataless clients (Managing NFS and NIS)
mounting directories: The Network File System (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- mount command: The mount command (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- remote: Mounting Remote Filesystems (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mounting filesystems: Mount filesystems as read-only (Building Internet Firewalls)
- Mount Filesystems as Read-Only (Building Internet Firewalls)
- background mounts: Backgrounding mounts (Managing NFS and NIS)
- devices: Resolving mount problems (Managing NFS and NIS)
- hard mounts: Hard and soft mounts (Managing NFS and NIS)
- - retransmission and: Timeout period calculation (Managing NFS and NIS)
- kill command: Hard and soft mounts (Managing NFS and NIS)
- multi-hop: Resolving mount problems (Managing NFS and NIS)
- ND and: NFS support for diskless clients (Managing NFS and NIS)
- NFS: Mounting filesystems (Managing NFS and NIS)
- NFS and: System Administration Using the Network File System (Managing NFS and NIS)
- PC/NFS: Mounting filesystems (Managing NFS and NIS)
- read-only: Mount options (Managing NFS and NIS)
- replication and: Rules for mounting replicas (Managing NFS and NIS)
- resolving problems: Resolving mount problems (Managing NFS and NIS)
- soft mounts: Hard and soft mounts (Managing NFS and NIS)
- symbolic links: Symbolic links (Managing NFS and NIS)
- transitive: Resolving mount problems (Managing NFS and NIS)
mount(1M) command: Mounting filesystems (Managing NFS and NIS)
mountport= option (fstab file): The vfstab and fstab files (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mountprog= option (fstab file): The vfstab and fstab files (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mountvers= option (fstab file): The vfstab and fstab files (TCP/IP Network Administration)
moving maps: Map files (Managing NFS and NIS)
mp option (pppd): The PPP Daemon (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mpeg (MIME data subtype): Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mpshortseq option (pppd): The PPP Daemon (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MR records: Types (DNS and Bind)
mrouter: IP over IP and GRE (Building Internet Firewalls)
mrru option (pppd): The PPP Daemon (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher): Trend Analysis (Essential SNMP)
- MRTG (Essential SNMP)
- features: MRTG (Essential SNMP)
- graphs: MRTG (Essential SNMP)
- - defaults: MRTG (Essential SNMP)
  - - Using MRTG (Essential SNMP)
    - Viewing Graphs (Essential SNMP)
  - displaying: Viewing Graphs (Essential SNMP)
  - - Graphing Other Objects (Essential SNMP)
  - filter options: Graphing Other Objects (Essential SNMP)
  - indexmaker: Graphing Other Objects (Essential SNMP)
  - legend options: Graphing Other Objects (Essential SNMP)
  - parameters: Using MRTG (Essential SNMP)
  - - Graphing Other Objects (Essential SNMP)
  - routers: Viewing Graphs (Essential SNMP)
  - servers: Graphing Other Objects (Essential SNMP)
  - specifying variables: Graphing Other Objects (Essential SNMP)
  - storing: Using MRTG (Essential SNMP)
- installing and running: Using MRTG (Essential SNMP)
- log files: Using MRTG (Essential SNMP)
- - Viewing Graphs (Essential SNMP)
- Perl and: Other Data-Gathering Applications (Essential SNMP)
- polling non-SNMP devices: Other Data-Gathering Applications (Essential SNMP)
- polling with: MRTG (Essential SNMP)
- problems with changing interfaces: Pitfalls (Essential SNMP)
- resources and help: Getting Help (Essential SNMP)
- targets: Using MRTG (Essential SNMP)
mrtg (Multirouter Traffic Grapher): Consider Using Software to Automate Monitoring (Building Internet Firewalls)
- capacity planning and: Capacity planning (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- configuration files: mrtg configuration file (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- - ntop, mrtg, and cricket on Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- Microsoft Windows: ntop, mrtg, and cricket on Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- MRTG-2 and -3 tools: rrd and the Future of mrtg (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- rrd and: rrd and the Future of mrtg (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- source website: Sources for Tools (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- uses: mrtg (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
mru option (pppd): The PPP Daemon (TCP/IP Network Administration)
ms-dns option (pppd): The PPP Daemon (TCP/IP Network Administration)
ms-wins option (pppd): The PPP Daemon (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mssh ssh tool: Microsoft Windows (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- Sources for Tools (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
msyslog logging tool: Remote logging (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- Sources for Tools (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
MTA (mail transfer agent): Electronic Mail (Building Internet Firewalls)
mtime (Unix file modification time): DNS NOTIFY (Zone Change Notification) (DNS and Bind)
Mtu field (netstat command): The Interface Name (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit)
- calculating: Other related tools (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- escaped characters and: Options (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- in interface configuration: ifconfig (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- ping functions and: Problems with ping (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- Frames and network interfaces (Managing NFS and NIS)
- Datagrams and packets (Managing NFS and NIS)
- ifconfig: Examining interfaces (Managing NFS and NIS)
mtu option (pppd): The PPP Daemon (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MUA (mail user agent): Electronic Mail (Building Internet Firewalls)
Multi-Generator tool set (see MGEN traffic tool set)
multi-homed (see also multi-homed)
- hosts: Routing datagrams (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- servers, options: Multi-Homed Server Options (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- sites, ASNs: Obtaining an autonomous system number (TCP/IP Network Administration)
multi-homed host firewall architecture: Firewalls (TCP/IP Network Administration)
multi-hop mounts: Resolving mount problems (Managing NFS and NIS)
Multi Router Traffic Grapher (see MRTG)
multi-threaded services: Internet and RPC server configuration (Managing NFS and NIS)
Multicase Backbone (see MBONE)
multicast addresses: The IP Address (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- The Natural Mask (TCP/IP Network Administration)
MULTICAST flag, ifconfig: Examining interfaces (Managing NFS and NIS)
- Checking the Interface with ifconfig (TCP/IP Network Administration)
multicast (gated): Interface Statements (TCP/IP Network Administration)
multicast IP: IP over IP and GRE (Building Internet Firewalls)
multicast parameter (gated): The routerdiscovery Statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
multicast routing option (Linux kernel configuration): Linux Kernel Configuration (TCP/IP Network Administration)
multicast traffic
- addresses in ARP tables: arp (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- filtering: Address filtering. (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- - Packet characteristics. (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
- ntop results: Web mode (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
multicasting: Multicast and the Multicast Backbone (MBONE) (Building Internet Firewalls)
multicasting option (Linux kernel configuration): Linux Kernel Configuration (TCP/IP Network Administration)
multihomed computers: Interactive mode (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
multihomed hosts: NS Records (DNS and Bind)
- Address and Alias Records (DNS and Bind)
- address sorting and: Name Server Address Sorting (DNS and Bind)
multihomed servers, performance tuning: Multihomed servers (Managing NFS and NIS)
multilink option (pppd): The PPP Daemon (TCP/IP Network Administration)
Multimedia Internet Mail Extensions (see MIME)
multipart (MIME data content type): Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (TCP/IP Network Administration)
multiple-cnames option (named): The options Statement (TCP/IP Network Administration)
multiple-cnames substatement: Multiple CNAMEs (DNS and Bind)
multiple files for menus: Adding a Menu to NNM (Essential SNMP)
multiple identities: User Identity (SSH, The Secure Shell)
multiple values, retrieving: Retrieving Multiple MIB Values (Essential SNMP)
multiplexing: Protocols, Ports, and Sockets (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- data delivery: Addressing, Routing, and Multiplexing (TCP/IP Network Administration)
multipliers in Smurf attacks: Smurf Attacks (Network Troubleshooting Tools)
multipliers (xnmgraph): OpenView Graphing (Essential SNMP)
- OpenView Graphing (Essential SNMP)
- OpenView Graphing (Essential SNMP)
Multirouter Traffic Grapher (see mrtg)
MultiViews (Options directive setting): Controlling Server Options (TCP/IP Network Administration)
museum domain: The Domain Hierarchy (TCP/IP Network Administration)
mv command: Map files (Managing NFS and NIS)
MX records: MX Records (DNS and Bind)
- Mail Exchanger record (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- The MX Algorithm (DNS and Bind)
- Types (DNS and Bind)
- Set up a "fake" DNS server on the bastion host for the outside world to use (Building Internet Firewalls)
- discarding: The MX Algorithm (DNS and Bind)
- email and firewalls: Mail from internal hosts to the Internet (DNS and Bind)
- forward-mapping zone files: The Forward-Mapping Zone File (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- nslookup command and: Using nslookup (TCP/IP Network Administration)
- performance limitation of: Limitation of MX Records (DNS and Bind)
- query statistics for: BIND 4.9 and 8 statistics (DNS and Bind)
- vs. RT records: , ISDN, and RT (DNS and Bind)
- sendmail and: Electronic Mail (DNS and Bind)

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