Working with interfaces and addresses
Understanding how Linux handles networking is an integral part of understanding how Docker handles networking. In this recipe, we'll focus on Linux networking basics by learning how to define and manipulate interfaces and IP addresses on a Linux host. To demonstrate the configuration, we'll start building a lab topology in this recipe and continue it through the other recipes in this chapter.
Getting ready
In order to view and manipulate networking settings, you'll want to ensure that you have the iproute2 toolset installed. If it's not present on the system, it can be installed using the following command:
sudo apt-get install iproute2
In order to make network changes to the host, you'll also need root-level ...
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