{"id":86,"date":"2011-05-25T11:41:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T10:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/?p=86"},"modified":"2011-05-25T19:02:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T18:02:54","slug":"setting-up-networking-from-the-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/2011\/05\/25\/setting-up-networking-from-the-command-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up networking from the command line"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m often getting asked how to set up simple networking from the command line.<\/p>\n

This drives me nuts a simple google would get the answers!<\/p>\n

But, now I can just point people here and save wasting my time.<\/p>\n

STATIC<\/strong>
\nThe following presumes you are on a 192.168.1.n class C network with the gateway as 192.168.1.1<\/p>\n

Linux<\/p>\n

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ifconfig<\/span> eth0 192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
\nroute add default gw 192.168.1.1
\necho<\/span> "nameserver 192.168.1.1"<\/span> >><\/span> \/<\/span>etc\/<\/span>resolv.conf
\n#might need to restart networking<\/span>
\n\/<\/span>etc\/<\/span>init.d\/<\/span>network restart<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

Windows<\/p>\n

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netsh interface ipv4 show interfaces #in<\/span><\/a> order to identify the name of the interface
\nnetsh interface ipv4 set<\/span><\/a> address name=\u201dLocal Area Connection\u201d source=static address=192.168.1.110 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.1.1
\nnetsh interface ipv4 add dnsserver name=\u201dLocal Area Connection\u201d address=192.168.1.1 index=1<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

Solaris<\/p>\n

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echo<\/span> "192.168.1.1"<\/span> >><\/span> \/<\/span>etc\/<\/span>defaultrouter
\necho<\/span> "192.168.1.100 HOSTNAME"<\/span> >><\/span> \/<\/span>etc\/<\/span>inet\/<\/span>hosts
\necho<\/span> "nameserver 192.168.1.1"<\/span> >><\/span> \/<\/span>etc\/<\/span>resolv.
\nsed<\/span> -i<\/span> "s\/hosts: file\/hosts: dns file\/g"<\/span> \/<\/span>etc\/<\/span>nsswitch.conf
\n\/<\/span>etc\/<\/span>init.d\/<\/span>network restart
\n#or just run<\/span>
\n\/<\/span>usr\/<\/span>sbin\/<\/span>sys-unconfig #and now reboot and enter details on the console<\/span><\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

DHCP<\/strong>
\nLinux<\/p>\n

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dhclient eth0<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

Windows<\/p>\n

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netsh interface ipv4 set<\/span><\/a> address name=\u201dLocal Area Connection\u201d source=dhcp<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

Solaris<\/p>\n

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\/<\/span>usr\/<\/span>sbin\/<\/span>sys-unconfig #and now reboot and enter details on the console<\/span><\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’m often getting asked how to set up simple networking from the command line. This drives me nuts a simple google would get the answers! But, now I can just point people here and save wasting my time. STATIC The following presumes you are on a 192.168.1.n class C network with the gateway as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[48,49,5,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}