December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
250 pages
4h 41m
English
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Chapter 3. Configuring Your Network
The recipes we'll be covering in this chapter are as follows:
- Creating a VLAN interface
- Creating a teamed interface
- Creating a bridge
- Configuring IPv4 settings
- Configuring your DNS resolvers
- Configuring static network routes
Introduction
This chapter will attempt to explain how to use NetworkManager, which is the default network configuration tool and daemon in RHEL 7. It is a set of tools that makes networking simple and straightforward.
Configuring your network can be hard at times, especially when using the more exotic configuration options in combination with well-known configuration scripts. The NetworkManager allows you to easily configure your network without needing to edit the configuration files manually.