Maintaining your Linux OS
Overview
Basic
management
Passwords
Checking
storage space
Checking
processes
Managing
users
Shutting down
and restarting your computer
Automating
tasks
Linux file management
File compression and
archiving tools
File managers
File
splitters
Linux networking
Getting
started
MAC and IP
addresses
Domain names
Adding a Linux
host to an existing network
Building a
private network
Configuring the network
interface
Security
Uninstalling Linux
Summary
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Adding a Linux host to an existing network
If you are planning on adding your Linux machine to an existing
network then you will need to know how the IP addresses on the
network are already arranged. You will need to know the following
information:
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The host IP address that can be allocated to your machine. Your
network administrator will have a list of those IP addresses that
are allocated and those that are free.
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The IP network address.
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The IP broadcast address (as it might not necessarily be your
network address followed by 255).
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The IP netmask.
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The router address.
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The Domain Name Server address (DNS address) which you have
assigned to your machine.
Once you have this information, networking the machine is in
fact quite easy. The best way to do this is to configure the
network entries of your machine through the 'network configuration'
menu of the YaST tool. This simply means copying the IP and DNS
information into the appropriate fields of the network
configuration menu. It is also possible to set this network
information using linuxconf.
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