http://ssl.webangel.ie/ 2026-05-28T11:43:35+00:00 http://ssl.webangel.ie/ http://ssl.webangel.ie/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2025-10-07T09:43:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://ssl.webangel.ie/doku.php?id=linux:linux-networking:network-tips&rev=1759830220&do=diff Network Tips Getting IP from Name dig +short dns.name text/html 2025-10-07T09:43:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://ssl.webangel.ie/doku.php?id=linux:linux-networking:nic-identification&rev=1759830220&do=diff Nic Identification COmmand used to identify nics is ethtool -p 'nic-name' This causes the Nic ports to flash text/html 2025-10-07T09:43:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://ssl.webangel.ie/doku.php?id=linux:linux-networking:redhat-bonding&rev=1759830220&do=diff Redhat Bonding Red Hat Enterprise Linux allows administrators to bind multiple network interfaces together into a single channel using the bonding kernel module and a special network interface called a channel bonding interface. Channel bonding enables two or more network interfaces to act as one, simultaneously increasing the bandwidth and providing redundancy. text/html 2025-10-07T09:43:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://ssl.webangel.ie/doku.php?id=linux:linux-networking:redhat-ifcfg&rev=1759830220&do=diff ifcfg-ethX /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX Option Variable(s) Note Standard Options DEVICE ethX Device name for NIC BOOTPROTO none/bootp/dhcp For readability reasons, some people use static instead of none ONBOOT yes/no Turn on at boot time/network startup? text/html 2025-10-07T09:43:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://ssl.webangel.ie/doku.php?id=linux:linux-networking:redhat-route&rev=1759830220&do=diff Redhat Route route-ethX /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-ethX Various startup & control scripts in RHEL expect networking to be setup in a certain way. When it is, failures/stops/starts/restarts/reloads will work smoothly on the server. Here is the recommended method for setting up additional network routes; text/html 2025-10-07T09:43:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://ssl.webangel.ie/doku.php?id=linux:linux-networking:redhat-sysconfig&rev=1759830220&do=diff /etc/sysconfig/network this is the central config file, not a lot to say about it really, except the usage of the GATEWAYDEV parameter. This param is to be used when multiple network gateways exist on a RHEL server. But in a simple setup, you'd just see GATEWAY= text/html 2025-10-07T09:43:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://ssl.webangel.ie/doku.php?id=linux:linux-networking:rhel7-networking&rev=1759830220&do=diff RHEL7 Networking Disable IPv6 Disable IPv6