Building Networks and Servers Using BeagleBone

Bill Pretty, Glenn Vander Veer

• Editore: Packt Publishing
• Anno: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781784390204
• Argomento: Computer Science
• Categoria: Computer Networking

Building Networks and Servers Using BeagleBone

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Table of Contents

Building Networks and Servers Using BeagleBone

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Installing Debian onto Your BeagleBone Black

Setting up to install Debian

Using the SD card before the resizing operation

Installing Tightvnc

Running the Cloud9 IDE

Summary

2. Installing and Configuring Multimedia Server Software

Setting up a static IP on the BeagleBone

Starting the VNC server

Installing NTP

Setting the local time zone

Installing and configuring Samba

Installing the DLNA server

Summary

3. Installing and Configuring Network Monitoring Software

Installing Traceroute

Installing My Traceroute

Installing Nmap

Using Nmap

Installing iptraf-ng

Configuring iptraf-ng

Summary

4. Installing and Setting Up a BeagleBone RAID System

Determining the available partitions

Preparing the partitions with fdisk

Installing Mdadm

Preparing the RAID set

Confirming whether RAID is correctly initialized

Creating the Mdadm.conf configuration file

Creating a mount point for the RAID set

Configuring Samba

Summary

5. Streaming Videos

Installing MySQL5

Installing Lighttpd

Disabling Cloud9 services

Installing PHP5

Configuring Lighttpd and PHP5

Testing PHP5

Setting up MySQL support in PHP5

Creating your own home page

Creating two modified PHP files

Configuring a streaming video

Summary

6. Setting Up a Wireless Access Point

Installing hostapd

Installing DHCP

Enabling Wi-Fi security

The hardware

Summary

Index

Building Networks and Servers Using BeagleBone

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Credits

Authors

Bill Pretty

Glenn Vander Veer

Reviewers

Raymond Boswel

Naoya Hashimoto

Jaime Soriano Pastor

Justin Smith

Norbert Varga

Commissioning Editor

Amarabha Banerjee

Acquisition Editor

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Content Development Editor

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Technical Editor

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Copy Editor

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Project Coordinator

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Proofreaders

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Safis Editing

Indexer

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Production Coordinator

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Cover Work

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About the Authors

Bill Pretty began his career in electronics in the early 80s with a small telecom start-up company that would eventually become a large multinational. He left this company to pursue a career in commercial aviation in northern Canada. Next, he joined the Ontario Center for Microelectronics, a provincially funded research and development center. Bill left this for a career in the military as a civilian contractor at what was then called Defense Research Establishment Ottawa. Thus began a career that was to span the next 25 years and continues until today.

Over the years, Bill acquired extensive knowledge in the field of technical security and started his own company in 2010. This company is called William Pretty Security Inc. and provides support in the form of research and development to various law enforcement and private security agencies.

Bill has published and presented a number of white papers on t...