Any Networking specific topics which are not a distro-specific goes here.
You may be familiar with the terms FTP and SFTP, these are the protocols that are used to transfer the files between client and server. So here in this article, I will explain what are FTP & SFTP and the differences between them. What is FTP? FTP or File Transfer Protocol is a standard … Read more
An IP address is a unique identifier that is assigned to each device connected to a computer network and uses Internet protocol for communication. A computer uses this address to send data to a specific computer. IPv4 and IPv6 are two versions of IP addresses available nowadays. Every computer with an IP address has an … Read more
There are various ways to copy a file or directory from remote to local or local to the remote machine. One of them is by using the SCP command. SCP stands for Secure copy which is a remote file copy program available in Linux or Unix systems. It copies files between hosts on a network. … Read more
NFS or Network file system is a distributed filesystem protocol. It allows a remote host to mount filesystem over a network and interact that filesystem much like local storage is accessed. It follows the client-server model. The mounted filesystem can be accessed by the client with whatever privileges assigned to each file. Like many other … Read more
Linux has a built-in command ifconfig that is used to configure wired network interfaces. In this article I am going to give the example commands to setup MAC address manually. How to Setup MAC address using ifcofig: Use the below commands in sequence to setup the MAC address on your Linux or Unix or BSD … Read more
(Static Routes Page: static-routes.html) These methods of changing the route table don’t last accross reboots. Listed below are methods to make any of these changes permanent. Checking the route table in Linux netstat -rn route Adding and Removing a Network in Linux route add -net 10.10.10.0/24 gw 192.168.0.1 route del -net 10.10.10.0/24 gw 192.168.0.1 Adding … Read more
Sample of how to set up DHCPD server on Red Hat 7.0 Copy over the sample dhcpd.conf file cp /usr/share/doc/dhcp-2.0pl5/dhcpd.conf.sample /etc/dhcpd.conf Edit /etc/dhcpd.conf Here’s a copy of the unmodified sample: subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { # — default gateway option routers 192.168.0.1; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option nis-domain “domain.org”; option domain-name “domain.org”; option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1; option … Read more
Manually setting up a network interface. This can come in handy if you need networking but don’t have any network scripts to rely upon. Setting up a NIC manually is no big deal, so here’s how to do it. Setting up a Static IP load the network driver insmod your_drivername Set up your local loopback … Read more
Samba startup guide checklist: This applies to a lot of Linux versions, notes for this page was gathered from RH70. install Linux install smaba check your hostname: hostname.html If the system host name is not set correctly then Samba and any number of other programs will have problems. Check your smb.conf file for the following: … Read more
