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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Can someone please give me information about WAN and LAN Post 34511 by norsk hedensk on Tuesday 25th of February 2003 05:00:39 PM
Old 02-25-2003
WAN == Wide Area Network

LAN == Local Area Network

when you are setting up your routing tables this makes a difference when setting up your gateways. however in concept there is not much difference except that one is usually smaller, and may or may not be connected to a WAN. if you have a home network with 5 computers connected together through a router, then you have a LAN. an example of a WAN is the internet.
 

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wanbootutil(1M) 					  System Administration Commands					   wanbootutil(1M)

NAME
wanbootutil - manage keys and certificates for WAN booting SYNOPSIS
wanbootutil [keygen] [option_specific_arguments] wanbootutil [keymgmt] [option_specific_arguments] wanbootutil [p12split] [option_specific_arguments] DESCRIPTION
The wanbootutil command creates and manages WANboot encyrption and hashing keys and manipulates PKCS #12 files for use by WAN boot. wanbootutil has three subcommands, each covered in a separate man page: wanboot_keygen(1M) Generates encryption and hashing keys. wanboot_keymgmt(1M) Inserts and extracts keys from WAN boot key repositories. wanboot_p12split(1M) Splits a PKCS #12 file into separate certificate and key files for use by WAN boot. OPTIONS
The options are supported for wanbootutil are the use of keygen, keymgmt, or p12split. The options for these subcommands are described in their respective man pages. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Generate a 3DES Client Key # wanbootutil keygen -c -o net=172.16.174.0,cid=010003BA0E6A36,type=3des Example 2: Insert an RSA Private Client Key wanbootutil keymgmt -i -k keyfile -s /etc/netboot/172.16.174.0/010003BA0E6A36/keystore -o type=rsa Example 3: Split a PKCS #12 File into Certificate and Key Components # wanbootutil p12split -i p12file -c out_cert -k out_key EXIT STATUS
0 Successful operation. non-zero An error occurred. Writes an appropriate error message to standard error. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWwbsup | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Obsolete | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
wanboot_keygen(1M), wanboot_keymgmt(1M), wanboot_p12split(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 18 Apr 2003 wanbootutil(1M)
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