Text Based Network Configuration

[Kevin Brown]

look in /etc/sysconfig
"network" holds the general config for the network, Hostname, Default Gateway,
etc...
"network-scripts/" holds the ifup, ifdown scripts and the configs for the
network interfaces ifcfg-eth0, ifcfg-eth1, etc...

"Simper, Brian D" wrote:
> 
> I am looking for command line or text based network configuration tools.  As
> you may be aware, Red Hat does not include linuxconf or netconf with RH 7.1
> or 7.2.  Admittedly, using this venerable tool could cause problems but
> netconf was functional once you got past the quirks.
> 
> The new graphical tools are OK, but I don't always have access to the
> console and sometimes I want to build a server without a GUI.  So how do you
> make changes to the network with text only tools?  Is there a complete
> reference showing exactly which configuration files you can manually edit
> and which services to manually start to get the network configured?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian
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