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Configuring network services in Kali

I'm doing my best to show you the necessary commands in each section. You don't need to know all of the commands for managing network services in Kali, but you are surely going to use some of them. In this section, I will show you my favorite commands related to the network services in Kali Linux.

To operate Kali properly, you need to ensure that it has connectivity to either a wired or a wireless network. You may need to obtain an IP address through Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), or assign one statically.

The first important command is ifconfig, which you will use to check the IP address on your Kali machine:

You can see my Kali IP address, 10.0.0.197, after executing this command (in the ...