Summary

This concludes our first steps into the world of networking. I hope learning about setting up your interfaces and changing how you talk to the world has helped you grow in some small way. In this chapter, you learned how to configure a network interface both manually and automatically. This allowed you to connect your server, thus, your application to the world using either a public or a private IP. Using tools such as nmtui and man pages make configuring these values more user-friendly. I hope we touched on all the parts you were particularly excited to see. We will go more in-depth into working with interfaces with Link Aggregation in our next chapter. This allows for many different traffic behaviors that can help you in your day-to-day job or if you need to set up failover, as I have in my home lab. For instance, if my primary internet connection goes down, my cellular network connection picks up where it left off. We are headed into more exciting areas of networking with...