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Find out how to configure network settings on systems running a variety of Linux distributions.
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Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Linux network configuration
- Virtual environment setup
- Configuring a network adapter
- Interface management tools
- Configuration management tools
- Which tools should I use?
- Network interfaces
- Configure a static IP using ifconfig
- Explore interface information with ifconfig
- Configure a static IP using the ip command
- Interface information with ip
- Provide DNS settings
- Configure an interface using DHCP
- Connect to Wi-Fi with iwconfig and wpa_supplicant
- Configuring systems using ifcfg
- Configuring systems using ENI
- Using NetworkManager's visual tools
- Using NetworkManager's command-line tools
- Configure a static client with nmcli
- Configure a dynamic client with nmcli
- Configure Wi-Fi
- Exploring Netplan
- Configure a Netplan client
- Exploring systemd-networkd and networkctl
- Configure a systemd-networkd client
- Set the system hostname
- Exploring firewalls
- Firewall configuration with UFW
- Firewall configuration with firewalld
- Monitor network port activity
- Next steps
Taught by
Scott Simpson
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