System Configuration Tools

 

I supposed its pretty easy and difficult to network a linux machine that's stubborn. Sometimes it can be difficult to network a machine that hasn't automatically created the files with the proper scripts. From installation I like to let the machine default on network decisions to use DHCP since most scripts will execute properly. I've run into some problems attempting manual configuration during the installation.

Here's a list of commands that can be entered. Now one thing to be aware of is that if you aren't initially logged in as root, you will have to use /sbin/command to use the commands. Example: root = ifconfig is the same command as a user + su = /sbin/ifconfig.

ifup, ifup-aliases, ifup-ipv6, ifup-ipx, ifup-plip, ifup-ppp, ifup-routes, ifup-cipcb
ifdown, ifdown-aliases, ifdown-ipv6, ifdown-ipx, ifdown-ppp, ifdown-post, ifdown-sit, ifdown-sl, ifdown-cipcb

Those are a good list of scripts to use from command line. ifup typically requires that you enter a space, and then a name of an interface

ifup eth0

You can opt to use any of these commands, personally I prefer to modify the file itself.

[steve@rhsrv ~]$ su
Password: (enter password)
[root@rhsrv steve]# nano /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0