This lesson covers network configuration.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the network configuration portion of Linux+ certification include:^[1]

• Basic network configuration
  • Manually and automatically configure network interfaces
  • Basic TCP/IP host configuration
  • Setting a default route
  • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
    • /etc/hostname
    • /etc/hosts
    • /etc/nsswitch.conf
    • ifconfig
    • ifup
    • ifdown
    • ip
    • route
    • ping

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