Linux › Section I · Your network and its configuration › Topic I.7
Configuring interfaces and network managers
You now know how to read addresses, routes and interfaces; this topic shows how they get set. You can type the settings into the kernel by hand, but on real systems a network manager such as NetworkManager or systemd-networkd applies them at boot and keeps them right as networks come and go.
In this topic
- Four steps to a working interface
- Configuring by hand with ip
- Worked example: a temporary static setup
- Why boot scripts were not enough
- NetworkManager
- Driving NetworkManager with nmcli
- Worked example: a permanent static profile
- systemd-networkd and networkctl
- Netplan
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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