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Index: M

• MAC (Media Access Control): Ethernet addresses
• • addresses: Ethernet addresses
  • • AdminSuite and: Setting up a diskless client
    • IP addresses: IP host addresses
    • IP mapping: IP to MAC address mappings
  • broadcast addresses: Broadcast addresses
  • cryptography and: One-way hash functions and MACs
  • layer tools: MAC and IP layer tools
  • • ifconfig: ifconfig: interface configuration
• maintaining maps: The ypserv daemon
• major timeouts: Timeout period calculation
• make process, accelerated: File attribute caching
• makedbm utility: Map naming
• Makefile
• • dependencies: Map file dependencies
  • passwd map contents: Installing the NIS master server
• mandatory file locking: Mandatory versus advisory locking
• • NFS: Mandatory locking and NFS
• map files
• • source code, control over: Source code control for map files
  • updating: Managing map files
• map maintenance calls: The ypserv daemon
• map transfers
• • regular transfers: Regular map transfers
  • servers, existing: Changing NIS master servers
  • source modification and: Map distribution
• MAPPING_UPDATE_INTERVAL parameter, nfslogd daemon: Other configuration parameters
• maps: Masters, slaves, and clients
• • Map files
  • automounter
  • • ampersand (&): Key substitutions
    • direct: Direct maps
    • • Updating NIS-managed automount maps
      • Conversion of direct maps
    • direct maps: Automounter maps
    • executable: Executable indirect maps
    • indirect: Multiple indirection
    • indirect maps: Indirect maps
    • master: Invocation and the master map
    • master map: Automounter maps
    • NIS-managed, updating: Updating NIS-managed automount maps
    • null: The null map
    • substitutions: Key and variable substitutions
  • changes, accepting: Password file updates
  • copying: Map files
  • DBM database and: Map files
  • definition of: Masters, slaves, and clients
  • dependencies: Map file dependencies
  • distribution: Map distribution
  • entries, consistency: Map structure
  • existence, service requests: The ypserv daemon
  • file management: Managing map files
  • generating, password files: Map naming
  • hosts file: Masters, slaves, and clients
  • integrating with local files: Integrating NIS maps with local files
  • maintaining: The ypserv daemon
  • modification timestamp: Map structure
  • moving: Map files
  • naming: Map naming
  • • data source and: Map naming
  • netgroup: Using netgroups
  • netgroups: Netgroups
  • netid.byname: Files managed under NIS
  • netmasks, ifconfig: Subnetwork masks
  • NFS RPC calls: NFS RPC procedures
  • nicknames: Files managed under NIS
  • • Map structure
  • NIS
  • • ASCII source file: Installing NIS slave servers
    • automounter and: Mixing NIS and files in the same map
    • map information: Other NIS map information
  • passwd.byname: Files managed under NIS
  • private: Making NIS more secure
  • published mapping: IP to MAC address mappings
  • read-only access: Password file updates
  • rebuilding: Map distribution
  • SCCS, disadvantages: Source code control for map files
  • source files: Map distribution
  • • alternates: Using alternate map source files
  • structure: Map structure
  • transfers: The ypserv daemon
  • • ypxrf tool: Regular map transfers
  • working with: Working with the maps
  • ypinit and: Installing the NIS master server
  • ypservers: Installing the NIS master server
  • see also domains: Masters, slaves, and clients
• masks, subnetwork: Subnetwork masks
• master map, automounter: Automounter maps
• • Invocation and the master map
  • command-line options: Command-line options
  • timeouts: Tuning timeout values
• master server
• • global changes and: Masters, slaves, and clients
  • hosts file, modifying: Masters, slaves, and clients
  • NIS, installing: Installing the NIS master server
  • unavailable: Installing the NIS master server
• master servers: Masters, slaves, and clients
• • checking for existence: Installing the NIS master server
  • creating: Installing the NIS master server
  • • Installing the NIS master server
  • hosts, changing: Changing NIS master servers
  • number of: Installing the NIS master server
  • ypxrf tool: Regular map transfers
• matches, key matches: Trace of a key match
• MAX_LOGS_PRESERVE parameter, nfslogd daemon: Other configuration parameters
• MBONE (Multicast backBONE): IPv4 address classes
• Media Access Control (see MAC)
• memory usage
• • server, bottlenecks: Problem areas
  • server performance tuning: Memory usage
• minor timeouts: Timeout period calculation
• MIN_PROCESSING_SIZE parameter, nfslogd daemon: Other configuration parameters
• mkdir: NFS RPC procedures
• mkfile swap files, diskless clients: Managing client swap space
• modification timestamps, maps: Map structure
• mount command: Using mount
• • failure of: Resolving mount problems
  • NFS filesystems, mounting: Networking Fundamentals
  • Solaris: Mount options
• mount information, NFS diagnostics: NFS administration tools
• mount parameters
• • retrans: Timeout period calculation
  • timeo: Timeout period calculation
• mount points
• • directories: NFS administration tools
  • naming scheme: Mount point constructions
  • permissions, incorrect (debugging case study): Incorrect mount point permissions
  • stepping-stone: Mount point constructions
  • symbolic links and: Mount point constructions
• mount protocol: Setting up NFS
• • background mounts: Backgrounding mounts
• mount requests, filehandles and: Pathnames and filehandles
• mountd daemon: Setting up NFS
• • Resolving mount problems
  • NFS protocol and implementation
  • /etc/dfs/dfstab and: NFS administration tools
• mounting dataless clients: Dataless clients
• mounting filesystems
• • background mounts: Backgrounding mounts
  • devices: Resolving mount problems
  • hard mounts: Hard and soft mounts
  • • retransmission and: Timeout period calculation
  • kill command: Hard and soft mounts
  • multi-hop: Resolving mount problems
  • ND and: NFS support for diskless clients
  • NFS: Mounting filesystems
  • NFS and: System Administration Using the Network File System
  • PC/NFS: Mounting filesystems
  • read-only: Mount options
  • replication and: Rules for mounting replicas
  • resolving problems: Resolving mount problems
  • soft mounts: Hard and soft mounts
  • symbolic links: Symbolic links
  • transitive: Resolving mount problems
• mount(1M) command: Mounting filesystems
• moving maps: Map files
• MTUs (Maximum Transmission Units): Frames and network interfaces
• • Datagrams and packets
  • ifconfig: Examining interfaces
• multi-hop mounts: Resolving mount problems
• multi-threaded services: Internet and RPC server configuration
• MULTICAST flag, ifconfig: Examining interfaces
• multihomed servers, performance tuning: Multihomed servers
• mv command: Map files

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