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Building Networks and Servers using Beaglebone

By : William Pretty, Glenn Vander Veer

Building Networks and Servers using Beaglebone

By: William Pretty, Glenn Vander Veer

Overview of this book

If you are a developer with BeagleBone experience and want to learn how to use it to set up a network and file server, then this book is ideal for you. To make the most of this book, you should be comfortable with the Linux operating system and know how to install software from the Internet, but you do not have to be a network guru.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Installing Debian onto Your BeagleBone Black

1. Installing Debian onto Your BeagleBone Black

Setting up to install Debian

Installing Tightvnc

Running the Cloud9 IDE

Summary

2. Installing and Configuring Multimedia Server Software

2. Installing and Configuring Multimedia Server Software

Setting up a static IP on the BeagleBone

Starting the VNC server

Installing and configuring Samba

Installing the DLNA server

Summary

3. Installing and Configuring Network Monitoring Software

3. Installing and Configuring Network Monitoring Software

Installing Traceroute

Installing Nmap

Installing iptraf-ng

Summary

4. Installing and Setting Up a BeagleBone RAID System

4. Installing and Setting Up a BeagleBone RAID System

Determining the available partitions

Preparing the partitions with fdisk

Installing Mdadm

Preparing the RAID set

Summary

5. Streaming Videos

5. Streaming Videos

Installing MySQL5

Installing Lighttpd

Disabling Cloud9 services

Installing PHP5

Creating your own home page

Configuring a streaming video

Summary

6. Setting Up a Wireless Access Point

6. Setting Up a Wireless Access Point

Installing hostapd

Installing DHCP

The hardware

Summary

Index

Index

Setting up a static IP on the BeagleBone

First, display the contents of the /etc/network/interfaces file. Run the following command:

cat /etc/network/interfaces

If the board is configured to use DHCP services (the default configuration), dhcp appears at the end of the following line:

iface eth0 inet dhcp

If the board is configured to use static IP settings, static appears at the end of the line instead of dhcp.

The following screenshot shows the output of the cat /etc/network/interfaces command:

Setting up a static IP on the BeagleBone

Now, create a backup of the /etc/network/interfaces file by running the following command:

sudo cp /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces.backup

Now, edit the interfaces file with nano, as follows:

iface eth0 inet dhcp

Change the preceding command line to this:

iface eth0 inet static

Setting up a static IP on the BeagleBone

Now, enter the following command in the terminal:

ifconfig

On the command line, you will see something similar to what is shown in the following screenshot:

Setting up a static IP on the BeagleBone

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