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Handy Linux commands to administer IPs and routes

Linux command / ip / linux / route 18 Jan 2016 14 Jan 2016 Leave a comment

Using basic network commands comes very hand when one needs to debug a networking issue, to fix a problem or to simply try out a couple of things.
This post is in no way an exhaustive list of Linux network-related commands, but tries to include a couple of the most basic ones and explain what they do.

Configure network connection via files in Linux

Linux ifconfig / ip / linux / network / route 14 Feb 2012 5 Jul 2013 Leave a comment

Setting your hostname, IP address, netmask, gateway, DNS server via files
It is sometimes helpful to know what is going on behind the scenes or if you want to modify the network configuration via changing files.
For example, assume you want to modify the network configuration by modifying files with the following…