Learn how to build and configure your own network based on the BeagleBone. You will do this in a fun and informative way that will not only teach you networking skills but also result in an impressive project.
Chapter 1, Installing Debian onto Your BeagleBone Black, introduces how to install Debian onto your BeagleBone. There are two ways to boot the BeagleBone and run the OS.
Chapter 2, Installing and Configuring Multimedia Server Software, serves as an installation guide for the software that will be used to store the streamed video and to serve up both the audio and video files to any device on the network, either BB, computers, or tablets/phones.
Chapter 3, Installing and Configuring Network Monitoring Software, acts as an installation guide for the software that will be used to monitor the traffic on your local network.
Chapter 4, Installing and Setting Up a BeagleBone RAID System, acts as an installation guide for the software that will be used to create a RAID array out of the partitions that you will create on your USB-connected drives.
Chapter 5, Streaming Videos, will show you how to set up both live and recorded video streaming, using a web-based application.
Chapter 6, Setting Up a Wireless Access Point, shows you how to install and set up a wireless access point or WAP on your BeagleBone system.
The following is a list of the suggested hardware for those of you who wish to build the entire system described in this book. Additional information has been outlined in the applicable chapters.
Two identical USB 2 memory sticks: These should be at least 2 GB in size. The actual size depends on the amount of multimedia data you intend to store.
A Beagle Bone compatible USB 2 WiFi adapter: There is a list of compatible adapters available at www.beaglebone.org.
A four-port USB 2 hub: Depending on the output power of your WiFi adapter, a powered hub may be required.
An 8 GB, series 10, uSD card: This is used to boot the root file system.
Win32DiskImager: This is available with a search engine search. This will install the Debian image onto the uSD card.
Two memory sticks from the same manufacturer and same model number.
This book is for beginners to intermediate readers who wish to learn more about how Linux networks are configured. You will learn this in a fun and informative way that will provide you with a finished product that you can enjoy and the skills to make improvements if you wish.
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Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Once fdisk is running, enter p as the first command."
A block of code is set as follows:
### Wireless network name ### interface=wlan0 ### Set your bridge name ### #bridge=br0
When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:
#
DAEMON_CONF="/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf" ß Add this line
# Additional daemon options to be appended to hostapd command:-Any command-line input or output is written as follows:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "It will be displayed as an Open network."
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