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FreeBSD® Unleashed
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FreeBSD® Unleashed

by Brian Tiemann, Michael C. Urban
October 2001
Beginner
1024 pages
25h 8m
English
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Configuring Network Settings without sysinstall

Using sysinstall to configure your cards makes things easy in some ways (it's nice and visual, for instance, and it does everything in one place), but it's also less than versatile for many of the networking tasks you may need to do. We'll now cover how to access the network settings more directly from the command line. Naturally, you must be root in order to run these commands in a way that alters the system's configuration.

Caution

Some of the functions we will be discussing cannot be done in sysinstall, such as adding IP aliases or modifying the routing tables. In fact, if you have a customized IP setup (for example, a card with many IP aliases bound to it), and then you do an additional configuration ...

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