Any Networking specific topics which are not a distro-specific goes here.
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