This section discuss the various networking commands and basic utilities that are used to display or modify the existing network configurations.
Using Linux networking commands
Viewing IP address details
In CentOS 7, we have three major utilities to display the device and address information:
- Newer IP command (/sbin/ip)
- Almost obsolete ifconfig command from net-tools package (/sbin/ifconfig)
- Versatile netstat command (/usr/bin/netstat)
Using the IP command
The ip is a very powerful utility that is used to perform many tasks. Multiple older utilities such as ifconfig...