- Determining Your IP Address
[root@bigboy tmp]# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:C7:10:74:A8
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1820
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:787 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:787 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:82644 (80.7 Kb) TX bytes:82644 (80.7 Kb)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:25:09:6A:B5
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:47379 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:107900 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:4676853 (4.4 Mb) TX bytes:43209032 (41.2 Mb)
Interrupt:11 Memory:c887a000-c887b000
wlan0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:25:09:6A:B5
inet addr:192.168.1.99 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:11 Memory:c887a000-c887b000
[root@bigboy tmp]#
In this example, eth0 has no IP address because this box is using wireless interface wlan0 as its main NIC. Interface wlan0 has an IP address of 192.168.1.100 and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0
You can see that this command gives good information on the interrupts, or PCI bus ID, used by each card. On very rare occasions you might find that your NIC card doesn't work because it shares both an interrupt and memory access address with some other device. You can look at the contents of the /proc/interrupts file to get a listing of all the interrupt IRQs used by your system. In the example below we can see that there are no conflicts with each IRQ from 0 to 15 having only a single entry. Devices eth0 and eth1 use interrupts 10 and 5, respectively:
[root@bigboy tmp]# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 2707402473 XT-PIC timer
1: 67 XT-PIC i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 411342 XT-PIC eth1
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
10: 1898752 XT-PIC eth0
11: 0 XT-PIC uhci_hcd
12: 58 XT-PIC i8042
14: 5075806 XT-PIC ide0
15: 506 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 43
[root@bigboy tmp]#
If there are conflicts, you might need to refer to the manual for the offending device to try to determine ways to either use another interrupt or memory I/O location.2. Changing Your IP Address
If you wanted, you could give this eth0 interface an IP address using the ifconfig command.
[root@bigboy tmp]# ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
The "up" at the end of the command activates the interface. To make this permanent each time you boot up you'll have to add this command in your /etc/rc.local file which is run at the end of every reboot.
Fedora Linux also makes life a little easier with interface configuration files located in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory. Interface eth0 has a file called ifcfg-eth0, eth1 uses ifcfg-eth1, and so on. You can place your IP address information in these files, which are then used to auto-configure your NICs when Linux boots. See Figure 3-1 for two samples of interface eth0. One assumes the interface has a fixed IP address, and the other assumes it requires an IP address assignment using DHCP.
Figure 3-1 - File formats for network-scripts
Fixed IP Address
[root@bigboy tmp]# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts [root@bigboy network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth0 # # File: ifcfg-eth0 # DEVICE=eth0 IPADDR=192.168.1.100 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 BOOTPROTO=static ONBOOT=yes # # The following settings are optional # BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 [root@bigboy network-scripts]#
Getting the IP Address Using DHCP
[root@bigboy tmp]# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts [root@bigboy network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth0 # # File: ifcfg-eth0 # DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes [root@bigboy network-scripts]#
As you can see eth0 will be activated on booting, because the parameter ONBOOT has the value yes and not no. You can read more about netmasks and DHCP in Chapter 2, "Introduction to Networking ", that acts as an introduction to networking.
The default RedHat/Fedora installation will include the broadcast and network options in the network-scripts file. These are optional.
After you change the values in the configuration files for the NIC you have to deactivate and activate it for the modifications to take effect. The ifdown and ifup commands can be used to do this:
[root@bigboy network-scripts]# ifdown eth0
[root@bigboy network-scripts]# ifup eth0
Your server will have to have a default gateway for it to be able to communicate with the Internet. This will be covered later in the chapter.
3. Multiple IP Addresses on a Single NIC
In the previous section "Determining Your IP Address" you may have noticed that there were two wireless interfaces: wlan0 and wlan0:0. Interface wlan0:0 is actually a child interface wlan0, a virtual subinterface also known as an IP alias. IP aliasing is one of the most common ways of creating multiple IP addresses associated with a single NIC. Aliases have the name format parent-interface-name:X, where X is the sub-interface number of your choice.
The process for creating an IP alias is very similar to the steps outlined for the real interface in the previous section, "Changing Your IP Address":
• First ensure the parent real interface exists
• Verify that no other IP aliases with the same name exists with the name you plan to use. In this we want to create interface wlan0:0.
• Create the virtual interface with the ifconfig command
[root@bigboy tmp]# ifconfig wlan0:0 192.168.1.99 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
• You should also create a /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0:0 file so that the aliases will all be managed automatically with the ifup and ifdown commands. Here is a sample configuration:
DEVICE=wlan0:0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.1.99
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
The commands to activate and deactivate the alias interface would therefore be:
[root@bigboy tmp]# ifup wlan0:0
[root@bigboy tmp]# ifdown wlan0:0
Note: Shutting down the main interface also shuts down all its aliases too. Aliases can be shutdown independently of other interfaces.
After completing these four simple steps you should be able to ping the new IP alias from other servers on your network.
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