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Configure networking using Network Manager

Configure networking using Network Manager

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Configure networking using Network Manager

- [Narrator] The preferred method of managing network connections on Enterprise Linux 7 is by way of Network Manager. If you want to manually control a connection you can keep Network Manager running and have it ignore that connection. For all other networking needs Network Manager works great. Network Manager comes with four different programs to configure the network which I've mentioned before. We're going to focus on NMTUI the Network Manager text user interface and NMCLI the Network Manager command line interface. We installed NMTUI in chapter four but if for some reason you don't have it install the Network Manager -tui package. Once it's installed type nmtui and hit ENTER. Once the interface appears you can navigate with the arrow keys or press TAB to step forward and SHIFT-TAB to step back through options. Press ENTER to select an option and press SPACE to toggle check boxes. NMTUI is easy to use but has some limitations such as: it can't edit VPNs or wireless networks using…

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