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Awareness of systemd-networkd

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Awareness of systemd-networkd

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- [Instructor] Networking under Linux is very powerful, but managed by many different tools. On Red Hat based distributions, we may edit ifcfg files in /ect/sysconfic/network-scripts. On Debian based distributions, we can edit the /ect/network/interfaces file. On SUSE, we'd edit ifcfg files in /ect/sysconfig/network. For dynamic interfaces, we could use WICD or NetworkManager. In recent years, most distributions have moved to NetworkManager, which is still the most powerful dynamic network management stack on Linux. However, that may change in the future as the developers of systemd have created networkd. Systemd-networkd is a system service that manages networks. It detects and configures network devices as they appear, as well as creating virtual network devices. Networkd isn't as powerful as NetworkManager, but currently can manage both static and dynamic connections. Systemd-networks will look for network configuration…

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