Summary

With this chapter behind us, you should have a firm understanding of IP addressing from a binary perspective. With this, you should understand subnet addressing and masking, as well as broadcast and multicast addressing. You also have a good grasp of the various IP address classes. With all of this in hand, you should be able to display or set IP addresses and routes on a Linux host using a variety of different commands. Other interface manipulations should also be easily accomplished, such as setting the MTU on an interface.

With these skills in hand, you are well prepared to embark on our next topic: using Linux and Linux tools for network diagnostics.