Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

Eth0 is not active at Linux Fedora Startup

Sometimes even though you have configure such that “Activate device when computer starts” for eth0 in Linux Fedora, it appears to do nothing - eth0 is not active at startup.
This maybe a bug with Fedora. One way to overcome this issue is to execute the following command:
chkconfig network on
This will enable the network service [...]

How to add static route to your Linux Fedora machine

To add a default route into your Linux box,
route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 10.0.0.1
However, if you only execute this command, the route will disappears if you reboot your system.
So, what would be the best way to permanently add that route to your system?
You may add or edit the default gateway on /etc/sysconfig/network file, [...]

How Computer resolves hostname

Basically there are 2 ways in resolving hostname to IP address:
1. DNS
2. Host file
The easiest way is to register a hostname in a DNS server. All computers in the network point the DNS server setting to this DNS server.

In this case, you only need to modify this information in the DNS server and the [...]

IPv6 is the future!

The number of available IPv4 addresses is getting lesser and lesser today. Undoubtedly IPv6 is the future IP addressing standard.

In fact, IPv6 is already implemented out of the box in OS like Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux. Not only that, some newer printer or copier machines also have this implemented in their system.
As such, knowing and [...]