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The basics for any

network based on
*nix hosts is the
Transport Control
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combination of three
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protocols. This
combination consists
of the Internet
Protocol
(IP),Transport
Control Protocol
(TCP), and
Universal Datagram
Protocol (UDP).
By Default most of
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installation of
Ubuntu. You can
however, use the

ifconfig command at
the shell prompt or
Ubuntu's graphical
network
configuration tools,
such as networkadmin, to edit your
system's network
device information or
to add or remove
network devices on
your system
Configure Network
Interface Using
Command-Line
You can configure a
network interface
from the command
line using the
networking utilities.
You configure your
network client hosts
with the command
line by using
commands to
change your current
settings or by editing
a number of system
files.
Configuring DHCP
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address for your

network card
If you want to
configure DHCP
address you need to
edit the /etc/network
/interfaces and you
need to enter the
following lines
replace eth0 with
your network
interface card
sudo vi
/etc/net
work
/interfa
ces
Note :- Use vi editor
if you don't have
GUI installed
If you have GUI use
the following
command
gksudo
gedit
/etc/net
work
/interfa
ces
# The
primary
networ
k
interfac
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e -use
DHCP
to find
our
addres
s
auto
eth0
iface
eth0
inet
dhcp
Configuring Static IP
address for your
network card
If you want to
configure Static IP
address you need to
edit the /etc/network
/interfaces and you
need to enter the
following lines
replace eth0 with
your network
interface card
sudo vi
/etc/net
work
/interfa
ces
if you don't have
GUI installed
If you have GUI use
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the following
command
gksudo
gedit
/etc/net
work
/interfa
ces
# The
primary
networ
k
interfac
e
auto
eth0
iface
eth0
inet
static
addres
s
192.16
8.3.90
gatewa
y
192.16
8.3.1
netmas
k
255.25
5.255.0
networ
k
192.16
8.3.0
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broadc
ast
192.16
8.3.255
After entering all the
details you need to
restart networking
services using the
following command
sudo
/etc/init
.d
/networ
king
restart
Setting up Second
IP address or Virtual
IP address in
Ubuntu
If you are a server
system administrator
or normal user some
time you need to
assign a second
ipaddress to your
Ubuntu machine.For
this you need to edit
the /etc/network
/interfaces file and
you need to add the
following
syntax.Below one is
the only example
you need to chnage
according to your ip
address settings
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sudo vi
/etc/net
work
/interfa
ces
if you don't have
GUI installed
If you have GUI use
the following
command
gksudo
gedit
/etc/net
work
/interfa
ces
auto
eth0:1
iface
eth0:1
inet
static
addres
s
192.16
8.1.60
netmas
k
255.25
5.255.0
networ
k
x.x.x.x
broadc
ast
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x.x.x.x
gatewa
y
x.x.x.x
You need to enter all
the details like
address,netmask,net
work,broadcast and
gateways values
after entering all the
values save this file
and you need to
restart networking
services in debian
using the following
command to take
effect of our new
ipaddress.
After entering all the
details you need to
restart networking
services using the
following command
sudo
/etc/init
.d
/networ
king
restart
Setting your ubuntu
stytem hostname
Setting up your
hostname upon a
ubuntu installation is
very straightforward.
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You can directly

query, or set, the
hostname with the
hostname
command.
As an user you can
see your current
hostname with
sudo
/bin/ho
stname
Example
To set the hostname
directly you can
become root and run
sudo
/bin/ho
stname
newna
me
When your system
boots it will
automatically read
the hostname from
the file
/etc/hostname
If you want to know
more about how to
setup host name
check here
Setting up DNS
When it comes to
DNS setup Ubuntu
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doesn't differ from

other distributions.
You can add
hostname and IP
addresses to the file
/etc/hosts for static
lookups.
To cause your
machine to consult
with a particular
server for name
lookups you simply
add their addresses
to /etc/resolv.conf.
For example a
machine which
should perform
lookups from the
DNS server at IP
address 192.168.3.2
would have a
resolv.conf file
looking like this
sudo vi
/etc/res
olv.con
f
if you don't have
GUI installed
If you have GUI use
the following
command
gksudo
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gedit
/etc/res
olv.con
f
enter the following
details
search
test.co
m
names
erver
192.16
8.3.2
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ramakrishna on
January 10, 2012 at
9:27 am said:
mr amit first u can
disable firewall and
also disable ipv6
then after u can
access internet
Deepak on January
12, 2012 at 3:13 pm
said:
After restart all IP
setting are flushing.
Pls help me..
markpupugee on
February 4, 2012 at
3:10 am said:
how to configure
dual lan in UBUNTU
??
joies on March 4,
2012 at 8:37 am
said:
What is the
broadcast address
for?
dawe on March 5,
2012 at 5:48 pm
said:
it is an address,
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which covers all

addresses in the
subnetwork, I think
Krahazik on May 7,
2012 at 7:46 pm
said:
Ok this is all well
and good but
completely useless
for my problem as
/etc/resolv.config is a
TEMPORARY file
and gets overwritten
each time the
computer is
rebooted. Having to
edit that file every
timeI boot the
machine up is
getting old fast. So
where do I go to
permanently add the
infor that I keep
adding to
/etc/resolve.config
using command
line?
mikecrosoft on May
22, 2012 at 10:44
pm said:
Change the file
access permissions
to only read for your
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user.
Krahazik on May 23,

2012 at 3:46 pm
said:
And how does that
answer my
question?
Norbert on June 17,
2012 at 12:09 pm
said:
Use /etc/resolv.conf
instead of
/etc/resolv.config
tonymac on June 25,
2012 at 4:00 pm
said:
Ubuntu uses a
resolver setup called
resolvconf which I
find difficult to follow.
You could start with
man :
me@home:~$man
resolvconf.
Online at ubuntu
there is a set of man
pages too, for
example if you use
karmic then:
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http://manpages.ubu
ntu.com/manpages
/karmic
/man8/resolvconf.8.h
tml
I wish you luck in
trying to figure it out
!
tonymac on June 25,
2012 at 4:19 pm
said:
I have read the man
again. It seems to
me that there are
only two scenarios:
IP address obtained
from DHCP server,
or IP statically set.
For IP address
obtained from DHCP
server you must set
the DNS server
entries in the DHCP
server e.g. your
internet router.
DHCP will pass this
to your desktop pc,
which will tell
resolvconf to update
its information.
/etc/resolv.conf is
just a link to the
resolvconf
configuration : there
is no need to touch
it. Now you have
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your DNS set up, the

same as your router.
Scenario 2: you are
behind a router but
have a static IP
address. In this case
you must include a
line in /etc/network
/interface to set the
DNS server
information. Your
networking software
will push this to
resolvconf which will
update the DNS
record to use your
choice of DNS
server. Here is an
example of an entry
in /etc/network
/interfaces:
## The primary
network interface
use fixed IP settings
#
# auto eth0
# iface eth0 inet
static
# address
192.168.3.90
# gateway
192.168.3.1
# netmask
255.255.255.0
# network
192.168.3.0
# broadcast
192.168.3.255
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## This dns entry

will push information
to resolvconf.
## /etc/resolv.conf
gets the info as it is
## a link to the
resolvconf setup file.
# dns-nameservers
11.22.33.44
55.66.77.88
# After any changes,
restart networking
using
# sudo /etc/init.d
/networking restart
Change the entry to
suit your setup.
Finally note you
must restart
networking as last
line in example.
I am not a guru so
read first e.g. use
google and search
for ubuntu
resolvconf
tonymac on June 25,
2012 at 4:26 pm
said:
The above example
just adds the
dns-nameservers
line to the example
given earlier in this
article, sorry I meant
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to credit this in my
previous post.
Randy L on
September 13, 2012
at 9:08 pm said:
Thanks for the post.
For some reason my
network was
configured to the
loopback device. My
ssh logins and other
network connection
are much faster now.
roc on November
10, 2012 at 7:38 am
said:
Hi,
I cant able to ping
google.com I had
given DNS but it is
not working. Help
me
Bill Ross on
February 13, 2013 at
11:14 pm said:
How do I change my
/etc/network/network
file to read-write? Im
not able to change it.
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Thanks.
Im a newbe.
Ron on February 24,

2013 at 3:58 pm
said:
I am running Ubuntu
12.10
How would I just
view the settings for
my network. I can
bet it is a cat
command but not
exactly sure
where/how to find it
on the command
line. I would
normally just do an
ipconfig in windows.
Any help would be
grateful
Thanks
20 of 22
Adam on May 1,
2013 at 3:35 pm
said:
ifconfig is probably
what youre looking
for. Read the man
page if you need
more specifics than
what it gives you by
default.
Bruce on July 24,
2013 at 5:17 pm
said:
Bill, not sure if you
figured it out, but
you should be able
to do the following
command:
sudo chmod 644
/etc/network/network
HTH
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