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Manual network configuration

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Manual network configuration

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- [Instructor] Network interface configuration files control the interfaces for individual network devices. As the system boosts these files are read and the network interfaces are configured or possibly ignored depending on the configuration. These files are stored in slash etc slash sysconfig slash network dash scripts and named ifcfg-name, where name is the name of the network interface. For instance, the configuration file for the enp0s3 network interface would be slash etc slash sysconfig slash network dash scripts slash ifcfg dash enp0s3. The network interface is also named inside of the file as well. Generally it's a good idea to have the match. These scripts are for all network interface configuration including dynamic and manual configs. A dynamic config may have only a few lines in it specifying the name of the device and a boot protocol of dhcp. This example specifies that it should be a name of that boot and…

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