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Configuring a network connection - Linux Tutorial
From the course: LPI Linux Essentials (010-160) Cert Prep
Configuring a network connection
- Now in most cases, the network connection is going to come up automatically for you. Sometimes though, the configuration has to be adjusted manually, or you have to activate it yourself depending on your Linux distribution. If it's available, automatic configuration will be handled by the DHCP server and the DHCP protocol on your Linux machine. As discussed earlier, a computer requires at least two key pieces of information for it to be able to connect to a typical computer network. This is your IP address and your netmask. However, configuring every computer on a large network with all of this information would be really, really time consuming. Worse, it can also lead to problems caused by human errors, such as typos in the IP addresses or subnet mask. For this reason, most networks are going to provide a DHCP server. And this server will provide the information needed to all of the other computers on your network.…
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