Basic Dos Networking commands in Fedora?

caa1980 · 04-21-2009, 09:58 AM

How do I do basic networking commands in Fedora?

I am used to managing networking in Windows and the command prompt. How do I get ipconfig information from Fedora command line? How do I renew and release IP addresses in Fedora? How do I know what the default gateway is and if it's using DHCP ?

MensaWater · 04-21-2009, 10:19 AM

Many of the commands are the same name at command line though the flags and arguments may be different. Command line can be accesses via "terminal" if you're in the GUI session (Gnome). If in text mode you're already at a command line.

On UNIX/Linux the command is ifconfig rather than ipconfig.

On UNIX/Linux the command is netstat as it is in Windows Cmd prompt.

For more complex networking you may have to edit configuration files manually or use a distro specific tool (e.g. system-config-network on RedHat/Fedora/CentOS). I'd suggest doing a search for the task you're attempting with the distro in the search parameters.

This site may help you with some of the more basic commands:
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/uni...dos_users.html

caa1980 · 04-21-2009, 10:25 AM

The distro was told in my question. I am refering to Fedora command line only.

kentyler · 04-21-2009, 11:29 AM

You can restart the network to release/renew the ip. In fedora you should not need to but if you like run:

service network restart

route -n shows gateway
ifconfig shows and changes the interfaces network settings

try man ifconfig or man route for help on arguments.

john test · 04-21-2009, 01:14 PM

Code:

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf   #shows the name servers
$ ip route
$ ip neigh
$ ping google.com
$ mtr google.com
$ traceroute google.com         # Use in place of "tracert"
$ ethtool eth0