Table of Contents
1. What is TUX? .................................................................................................................................7
1.1. New TUX 2.1 Features....................................................................................................7
1.2. Summary of System Requirements..............................................................................8
1.2.1. Current Limitations.........................................................................................8
2. Installation .....................................................................................................................................9
2.1. Installation Instructions .................................................................................................9
2.1.1. Log Files ............................................................................................................9
3. Configuration...............................................................................................................................11
3.1. Modes of Operation......................................................................................................11
3.2. Compressed Gzip Data Stream...................................................................................11
3.3. Parameters......................................................................................................................12
3.3.1. /proc/sys/net/tux Parameters...................................................................12
3.3.2. Init Script Parameters....................................................................................16
3.3.3. /proc/net/tux Parameters...........................................................................17
3.3.4. Required Parameters.....................................................................................17
3.4. Starting TUX..................................................................................................................17
3.4.1. IRQ Affinity.....................................................................................................18
3.5. Stopping TUX................................................................................................................18
3.6. Debugging TUX ............................................................................................................19
3.7. MIME Types...................................................................................................................19
3.8. Mass Virtual Hosting....................................................................................................19
3.8.1. virtual_server............................................................................................20
3.8.2. mass_hosting_hash......................................................................................20
3.8.3. string_host_tail........................................................................................20
3.9. TUX as an FTP Server...................................................................................................21
3.9.1. TUX FTP Server Security Features..............................................................21
4. Security .........................................................................................................................................23
5. User-space Loadable Modules..................................................................................................25
Index..................................................................................................................................................27
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