Linux 101 : Manually setting up network interfaces
The file will be empty except for maybe the loopback interface if we are using the Network Manager to manage our network interfaces, as we can see in the below file:
We can check if our system is using the Network Manager using the below command:
Below is an example of the "/etc/network/interfaces" file when the Network Manager is not used:
- auto: tells the system to automatically bring up the "eth0" interface.
- dhcp: the network interface uses dhcp to set itself up.
In the below example the interface is configured with a static IP address:
In the following directory "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts", we have a list of files, one for each interface on the system.
For example for the "eth0" interface, we could find a corresponding file named "ifcfg-eth0".
Below are some of the parameters we could find in these files:
-NM_CONTROLLED=no : means that the Network Manager is not managing our interface.
For the changes to take effect, we will need to restart the networking service as follows:
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