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UNIX01/Red Hat's Netconfig

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This will probably be the only time during these three UNIX courses that I will say this, but for all but the most esoteric networking setups you will probably want to configure your networking under UNIX using the wide-variety of GUI and text-based utilities available.

Why the exception? Networking setup is easily misconfigured by hand and yet there are really only a few differing setups commonly used that it is actually more reliable to allow some third party tool to control your Linux box's networking. While this may not be the case if your Linux box is acting in more of a controlling role (such as acting as DNS or doing some sort of routing), for most setups it will suffice.

Red Hat's Netconfig

Red Hat has had for many releases now a very simple network configuration tool called netconfig. netconfig is run from the command-line and does not need a GUI in order to run (thus, it can even be run remotely, or on a machine that will be headless). When first ran, it presents the following display:

Soon you will get to the actual network configuration

In addition to netconfig, you will find a number of alternative tools. For example, Knoppix and Debian provide a GUI tool called netcardconfig. Mandrake supplies a comprehensive configuration system that provides networking setup. And Red Hat has a X Windows suite of configuration utilities for this task.



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