13 Linux Network Configuration and Troubleshooting Commands
1. ifconfig ifconfig ( interface configurator ) command is use to initialize an interface, assign IP Address to interface and enable or disable interface on demand. With this command you can view IP Address and Hardware / MAC address assign to interface and also MTU ( Maximum transmission unit ) size. # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:28:FD:4C inet addr:192.168.50.2 Bcast:192.168.50.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe28:fd4c/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:6093 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4824 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:6125302 (5.8 MiB) TX bytes:536966 (524.3 KiB) Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback in...