Linux Network Configuration Basics

Chapter I. Linux Basic Network Settings

Requirements:

• DHCP the host name of the server is dhcpsvr.benet.com , IP address is 192.168.4.11/24

• used to automatically assign the hosts in the LAN IP address range is 192.168.4.20~192.168.4.200

• The default gateway address used by each host in the LAN is 192.168.4.1

• dns server addresses are and dns and

• Network printer Device (you can find another one within the network Windows host, execute " Ipconfig/all "command to find out its MAC address) is a host name of Prtsvr , requires automatic allocation of fixed IP address is 192.168.4.9

Specific steps:

1. Use hostname command--Modify the name of the host

hostname The command can be used not only to display the name of the current host, but also to modify the name of the current host. In a newly logged-on user session (Shell Environment), the host name section in the command prompt also changes accordingly.

This is the step to set the hostname temporarily!

Host name configuration file

to permanently modify Linux the hostname of the system, you can modify the configuration file /etc/sysconfig/network . :

This is the step to permanently set the hostname!

1. Use ifconfig command--Modify the address and status of the NIC

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Linux Network Configuration Basics