| ~~NOTRANS~~ |
| # Network |
| This is the wiki with technical documentation of the networking code in IPFire 3.x. |
| At first of all, you should know that there is a "network" command that lets you control everything you need. |
| Second, there are [](./ports), [](./configs) and [](./zones). |
| ## Ports |
| When the system boots up, all ethernet devices are scanned and automatically added to the network configuration. |
| They are called [](./ports) and do only forward ethernet frames. They do *not* have any layer 3 protocol on them. |
| Additionally, other ports can be created like [](VLAN)-ports, [](Bonding)-ports, and so on. |
| (**FIXME** - cannot locate these links) |
| ## Zones |
| A [zone](/devel/network/zones) is a network device which actually used by the applications and system. This is the place where IP addresses are configured and routing is done. |
| ## Configs |
| Configurations are a bunch of settings that get applied to zones. This could be for example an IPv4 address. |
| ## Man Pages |
| The man pages are available online as HTML documents. They are automatically exported and therefore always up to date. |
| [https://man-pages.ipfire.org/network](https://man-pages.ipfire.org/network) |
| ## Misc. |
| * [](./qa) |
| * [](./security-policies) |
| * [](./ipsec) |
| * [](./wireless-networks) |
| * [](./firewall) |
| * [](./qos) |