Debian | Fedora Networking

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source: http://linux-training.be/sysadmin/ch22.html

TOPICS:

Debian nic configuration

/etc/network/interfaces

/sbin/ifdown

/sbin/ifup

RHEL nic configuration

/etc/sysconfig/network

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-

nmcli

nmtui

/sbin/ifup and /sbin/ifdown

ifconfig

up and down

setting ip address

setting mac address

ip

dhclient

hostname

arp

route

ping

optional: ethtool

practice: interface configuration

solution: interface configuration

Debian nic configuration

/etc/network/interfaces

The /etc/network/interfaces file is a core network interface card configuration file on debian.

dhcp client

The screenshot below shows that our computer is configured for dhcp on eth0 (the first network interface card or nic).

paul@debian8:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp

Configuring network cards for dhcp is good practice for clients, but servers usually require a fixed ip address.

fixed ip

The screenshot below shows /etc/network/interfaces configured with a fixed ip address.

root@debian7~# cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.42.189.198 broadcast 10.42.189.207 netmask 255.255.255.240 gateway 10.42.189.193

The screenshot above also shows that you can provide more configuration than just the ip address. See interfaces(5) for help on setting a gateway, netmask or any of the other options.

/sbin/ifdown

It is adviced (but not mandatory) to down an interface before changing its configuration. This can be done with the ifdown command.

The command will not give any output when downing an interface with a fixed ip address. However ifconfig will no longer show the interface.

root@ubu1104srv:~# ifdown eth0 root@ubu1104srv:~# ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:106 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:106 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:11162 (11.1 KB) TX bytes:11162 (11.1 KB)

An interface that is down cannot be used to connect to the network.

/sbin/ifup

Below a screenshot of ifup bringing the eth0 ethernet interface up using dhcp. (Note that this is a Ubuntu 10.10 screenshot, Ubuntu 11.04 omits ifup output by default.)

root@ubu1010srv:/etc/network# ifup eth0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3 Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/eth0/08:00:27:cd:7f:fc Sending on LPF/eth0/08:00:27:cd:7f:fc Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.34 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPNAK from 192.168.33.100 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPOFFER of 192.168.33.77 from 192.168.33.100 DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.33.77 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK of 192.168.33.77 from 192.168.33.100 bound to 192.168.33.77 -- renewal in 95 seconds. ssh stop/waiting ssh start/running, process 1301 root@ubu1010srv:/etc/network#

The details of dhcp are covered in a separate chapter in the Linux Servers course.

RHEL nic configuration

/etc/sysconfig/network

The /etc/sysconfig/network file is a global (across all network cards) configuration file. It allows us to define whether we want networking (NETWORKING=yes|no), what the hostname should be (HOSTNAME=) and which gateway to use (GATEWAY=).

[root@rhel6 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=rhel6 GATEWAY=192.168.1.1

There are a dozen more options settable in this file, details can be found in /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt.

Note that this file contains no settings at all in a default RHEL7 install (with networking enabled).

[root@rhel71 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network # Created by anaconda

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-

Each network card can be configured individually using the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* files. When you have only one network card, then this will probably be /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.

dhcp client

Below a screenshot of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 configured for dhcp (BOOTPROTO="dhcp"). Note also the NM_CONTROLLED paramater to disable control of this nic by Network Manager. This parameter is not explained (not even mentioned) in /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt, but many others are.

[root@rhel6 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE="eth0" HWADDR="08:00:27:DD:0D:5C" NM_CONTROLLED="no" BOOTPROTO="dhcp" ONBOOT="yes"

The BOOTPROTO variable can be set to either dhcp or bootp, anything else will be considered static meaning there should be no protocol used at boot time to set the interface values.

RHEL7 adds ipv6 variables to this file.

[root@rhel71 network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-enp0s3 TYPE="Ethernet" BOOTPROTO="dhcp" DEFROUTE="yes" PEERDNS="yes" PEERROUTES="yes" IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL="no" IPV6INIT="yes" IPV6_AUTOCONF="yes" IPV6_DEFROUTE="yes" IPV6_PEERDNS="yes" IPV6_PEERROUTES="yes" IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL="no" NAME="enp0s3" UUID="9fa6a83a-2f8e-4ecc-962c-5f614605f4ee" DEVICE="enp0s3" ONBOOT="yes" [root@rhel71 network-scripts]#

fixed ip

Below a screenshot of a fixed ip configuration in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.

[root@rhel6 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE="eth0" HWADDR="08:00:27:DD:0D:5C" NM_CONTROLLED="no" BOOTPROTO="none" IPADDR="192.168.1.99" NETMASK="255.255.255.0" GATEWAY="192.168.1.1" ONBOOT="yes"

The HWADDR can be used to make sure that each network card gets the correct name when multiple network cards are present in the computer. It can not be used to assign a mac address to a network card. For this, you need to specify the MACADDR variable. Do not use HWADDR and MACADDR in the same ifcfg-ethx file.

The BROADCAST= and NETWORK= parameters from previous RHEL/Fedora versions are obsoleted.

nmcli

On RHEL7 you should run nmcli connection reload if you changed configuration files in /etc/sysconfig/ to enable your changes.

The nmcli tool has many options to configure networking on the command line in RHEL7/CentOS7

man nmcli

nmtui

Another recommendation for RHEL7/CentOS7 is to use nmtui. This tool will use a 'windowed' interface in command line to manage network interfaces.

nmtui

/sbin/ifup and /sbin/ifdown

The ifup and ifdown commands will set an interface up or down, using the configuration discussed above. This is identical to their behaviour in Debian and Ubuntu.

[root@rhel6 ~]# ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0 [root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:DD:0D:5C inet addr:192.168.1.99 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fedd:d5c/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2452 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1881 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:257036 (251.0 KiB) TX bytes:184767 (180.4 KiB)

ifconfig

The use of /sbin/ifconfig without any arguments will present you with a list of all active network interface cards, including wireless and the loopback interface. In the screenshot below eth0 has no ip address.

root@ubu1010:~# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:bb:5d:2e:52 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interrupt:43 Base address:0xe000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:bb:12:7a:5e inet addr:192.168.1.30 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::226:bbff:fe12:7a5e/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:11141791 errors:202 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:11580126 TX packets:6473056 errors:3860 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:3476531617 (3.4 GB) TX bytes:2114919475 (2.1 GB) Interrupt:23 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2879 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2879 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:486510 (486.5 KB) TX bytes:486510 (486.5 KB)

You can also use ifconfig to obtain information about just one network card.

[root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:DD:0D:5C inet addr:192.168.1.99 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fedd:d5c/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2969 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1918 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:335942 (328.0 KiB) TX bytes:190157 (185.7 KiB)

When /sbin is not in the $PATH of a normal user you will have to type the full path, as seen here on Debian.

paul@debian5:~$ /sbin/ifconfig eth3 eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:ab:67:30 inet addr:192.168.1.29 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:feab:6730/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:27155 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:30527 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:13095386 (12.4 MiB) TX bytes:25767221 (24.5 MiB)

up and down

You can also use ifconfig to bring an interface up or down. The difference with ifup is that ifconfig eth0 up will re-activate the nic keeping its existing (current) configuration, whereas ifup will read the correct file that contains a (possibly new) configuration and use this config file to bring the interface up.

[root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig eth0 down [root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig eth0 up [root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:DD:0D:5C inet addr:192.168.1.99 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fedd:d5c/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2995 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1927 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:339030 (331.0 KiB) TX bytes:191583 (187.0 KiB)

setting ip address

You can temporary set an ip address with ifconfig. This ip address is only valid until the next ifup/ifdown cycle or until the next reboot.

[root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig eth0 | grep 192 inet addr:192.168.1.99 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 [root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig eth0 192.168.33.42 netmask 255.255.0.0 [root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig eth0 | grep 192 inet addr:192.168.33.42 Bcast:192.168.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 [root@rhel6 ~]# ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0 [root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig eth0 | grep 192 inet addr:192.168.1.99 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

setting mac address

You can also use ifconfig to set another mac address than the one hard coded in the network card. This screenshot shows you how.

[root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig eth0 | grep HWaddr eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:DD:0D:5C [root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:42:42:42:42:42 [root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig eth0 | grep HWaddr eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:42:42:42:42:42

ip

The ifconfig tool is deprecated on some systems. Use the ip tool instead.

To see ip addresses on RHEL7 for example, use this command:

[root@rhel71 ~]# ip a 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: enp0s3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000 link/ether 08:00:27:89:22:33 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.1.135/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic enp0s3 valid_lft 6173sec preferred_lft 6173sec inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fe89:2233/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever [root@rhel71 ~]#

dhclient

Home and client Linux desktops often have /sbin/dhclient running. This is a daemon that enables a network interface to lease an ip configuration from a dhcp server. When your adapter is configured for dhcp or bootp, then /sbin/ifup will start the dhclient daemon.

When a lease is renewed, dhclient will override your ifconfig set ip address!

hostname

Every host receives a hostname, often placed in a DNS name space forming the fqdn or Fully Qualified Domain Name.

This screenshot shows the hostname command and the configuration of the hostname on Red Hat/Fedora.

[root@rhel6 ~]# grep HOSTNAME /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=rhel6 [root@rhel6 ~]# hostname rhel6

Starting with RHEL7/CentOS7 this file is empty. The hostname is configured in the standard /etc/hostname file.

[root@rhel71 ~]# cat /etc/hostname rhel71.linux-training.be [root@rhel71 ~]#

Ubuntu/Debian uses the /etc/hostname file to configure the hostname.

paul@debian8:~$ cat /etc/hostname server42 paul@debian8:~$ hostname server42

On all Linux distributions you can change the hostname using the hostname $newname command. This is not a permanent change.

[root@rhel6 ~]# hostname server42 [root@rhel6 ~]# hostname server42

On any Linux you can use sysctl to display and set the hostname.

[root@rhel6 ~]# sysctl kernel.hostname kernel.hostname = server42 [root@rhel6 ~]# sysctl kernel.hostname=rhel6 kernel.hostname = rhel6 [root@rhel6 ~]# sysctl kernel.hostname kernel.hostname = rhel6 [root@rhel6 ~]# hostname rhel6

arp

The ip to mac resolution is handled by the layer two broadcast protocol arp. The arp table can be displayed with the arp tool. The screenshot below shows the list of computers that this computer recently communicated with.

root@barry:~# arp -a ? (192.168.1.191) at 00:0C:29:3B:15:80 [ether] on eth1 agapi (192.168.1.73) at 00:03:BA:09:7F:D2 [ether] on eth1 anya (192.168.1.1) at 00:12:01:E2:87:FB [ether] on eth1 faith (192.168.1.41) at 00:0E:7F:41:0D:EB [ether] on eth1 kiss (192.168.1.49) at 00:D0:E0:91:79:95 [ether] on eth1 laika (192.168.1.40) at 00:90:F5:4E:AE:17 [ether] on eth1 pasha (192.168.1.71) at 00:03:BA:02:C3:82 [ether] on eth1 shaka (192.168.1.72) at 00:03:BA:09:7C:F9 [ether] on eth1 root@barry:~#

Anya is a Cisco Firewall, faith is a laser printer, kiss is a Kiss DP600, laika is a laptop and Agapi, Shaka and Pasha are SPARC servers. The question mark is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server running on a virtual machine.

You can use arp -d to remove an entry from the arp table.

[root@rhel6 ~]# arp Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface ubu1010 ether 00:26:bb:12:7a:5e C eth0 anya ether 00:02:cf:aa:68:f0 C eth0 [root@rhel6 ~]# arp -d anya [root@rhel6 ~]# arp Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface ubu1010 ether 00:26:bb:12:7a:5e C eth0 anya (incomplete) eth0 [root@rhel6 ~]# ping anya PING anya (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from anya (192.168.1.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=10.2 ms ... [root@rhel6 ~]# arp Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface ubu1010 ether 00:26:bb:12:7a:5e C eth0 anya ether 00:02:cf:aa:68:f0 C eth0

route

You can see the computer's local routing table with the /sbin/route command (and also with netstat -r ).

root@RHEL4b ~]# netstat -r Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 [root@RHEL4b ~]# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 [root@RHEL4b ~]#

It appears this computer does not have a gateway configured, so we use route add default gw to add a default gateway on the fly.

[root@RHEL4b ~]# route add default gw 192.168.1.1 [root@RHEL4b ~]# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 [root@RHEL4b ~]#

Unless you configure the gateway in one of the /etc/ file from the start of this chapter, your computer will forget this gateway after a reboot.

ping

If you can ping to another host, then tcp/ip is configured.

[root@RHEL4b ~]# ping 192.168.1.5 PING 192.168.1.5 (192.168.1.5) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.5: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1004 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.5: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.19 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.5: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.494 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.5: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.419 ms --- 192.168.1.5 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3009ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.419/251.574/1004.186/434.520 ms, pipe 2 [root@RHEL4b ~]#

optional: ethtool

To display or change network card settings, use ethtool. The results depend on the capabilities of your network card. The example shows a network that auto-negotiates it's bandwidth.

root@laika:~# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00000033 (51) Link detected: yes

This example shows how to use ethtool to switch the bandwidth from 1000Mbit to 100Mbit and back. Note that some time passes before the nic is back to 1000Mbit.

root@laika:~# ethtool eth0 | grep Speed Speed: 1000Mb/s root@laika:~# ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 root@laika:~# ethtool eth0 | grep Speed Speed: 100Mb/s root@laika:~# ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 root@laika:~# ethtool eth0 | grep Speed Speed: 1000Mb/s

practice: interface configuration

1. Verify whether dhclient is running.

2. Display your current ip address(es).

3. Display the configuration file where this ip address is defined.

4. Follow the nic configuration in the book to change your ip address from dhcp client to fixed. Keep the same ip address to avoid conflicts!

5. Did you also configure the correct gateway in the previous question ? If not, then do this now.

6. Verify that you have a gateway.

7. Verify that you can connect to the gateway, that it is alive.

8. Change the last two digits of your mac address.

9. Which ports are used by http, pop3, ssh, telnet, nntp and ftp ?

10. Explain why e-mail and websites are sent over tcp and not udp.

11. Display the hostname of your computer.

12. Which ip-addresses did your computer recently have contact with ?

solution: interface configuration

1. Verify whether dhclient is running.

paul@debian5:~$ ps fax | grep dhclient

2. Display your current ip address(es).

paul@debian5:~$ /sbin/ifconfig | grep 'inet ' inet addr:192.168.1.31 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

3. Display the configuration file where this ip address is defined.

Ubuntu/Debian: cat /etc/network/interfaces Redhat/Fedora: cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*

4. Follow the nic configuration in the book to change your ip address from dhcp client to fixed. Keep the same ip address to avoid conflicts!

Ubuntu/Debian: ifdown eth0 vi /etc/network/interfaces ifup eth0

Redhat/Fedora: ifdown eth0 vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 ifup eth0

5. Did you also configure the correct gateway in the previous question ? If not, then do this now.

6. Verify that you have a gateway.

paul@debian5:~$ /sbin/route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

7. Verify that you can connect to the gateway, that it is alive.

paul@debian5:~$ ping -c3 192.168.1.1 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=2.28 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=254 time=2.94 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=254 time=2.34 ms --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2008ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.283/2.524/2.941/0.296 ms

8. Change the last two digits of your mac address.

[root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig eth0 hw ether 08:00:27:ab:67:XX

9. Which ports are used by http, pop3, ssh, telnet, nntp and ftp ?

root@rhel6 ~# grep ^'http ' /etc/services http 80/tcp www www-http # WorldWideWeb HTTP http 80/udp www www-http # HyperText Transfer Protocol root@rhel6 ~# grep ^'smtp ' /etc/services smtp 25/tcp mail smtp 25/udp mail root@rhel6 ~# grep ^'ssh ' /etc/services ssh 22/tcp # The Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol ssh 22/udp # The Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol root@rhel6 ~# grep ^'telnet ' /etc/services telnet 23/tcp telnet 23/udp root@rhel6 ~# grep ^'nntp ' /etc/services nntp 119/tcp readnews untp # USENET News Transfer Protocol nntp 119/udp readnews untp # USENET News Transfer Protocol root@rhel6 ~# grep ^'ftp ' /etc/services ftp 21/tcp ftp 21/udp fsp fspd

10. Explain why e-mail and websites are sent over tcp and not udp.

Because tcp is reliable and udp is not.

11. Display the hostname of your computer.

paul@debian5:~$ hostname debian5

12. Which ip-addresses did your computer recently have contact with ?

root@rhel6 ~# arp -a ? (192.168.1.1) at 00:02:cf:aa:68:f0 [ether] on eth2 ? (192.168.1.30) at 00:26:bb:12:7a:5e [ether] on eth2 ? (192.168.1.31) at 08:00:27:8e:8a:a8 [ether] on eth2

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