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Patrick J Volkerding 5a12e7c134 Slackware 13.0
Wed Aug 26 10:00:38 CDT 2009
Slackware 13.0 x86_64 is released as stable!  Thanks to everyone who
helped make this release possible -- see the RELEASE_NOTES for the
credits.  The ISOs are off to the replicator.  This time it will be a
6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD.
We're taking pre-orders now at store.slackware.com.  Please consider
picking up a copy to help support the project.  Once again, thanks to
the entire Slackware community for all the help testing and fixing
things and offering suggestions during this development cycle.
As always, have fun and enjoy!  -P.
2018-05-31 22:41:17 +02:00

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<h1><a id="NETWORK-CONFIGURATION" name="NETWORK-CONFIGURATION"></a>Chapter 5 Network
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<dt>5.1 <a
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<h1 class="SECT1"><a id="NETWORK-CONFIGURATION-NETCONFIG"
name="NETWORK-CONFIGURATION-NETCONFIG">5.1 Introduction: netconfig is your
friend.</a></h1>
<p>When you initially installed Slackware, the setup program invoked the <tt
class="COMMAND">netconfig</tt> program. <tt class="COMMAND">netconfig</tt> attempted to
perform the following functions for you:</p>
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<li>
<p>It asked you for the name of your computer, and the domain name for your computer.</p>
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<p>It gave a brief explanation of the various types of addressing schemes, told when they
should be used, and asked you which IP addressing scheme you wished to use to configure
your network card:</p>
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<li>
<p>Static-IP</p>
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<p>DHCP</p>
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<p>Loopback</p>
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<p>It then offered to probe for a network card to configure.</p>
</li>
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<p><tt class="COMMAND">netconfig</tt> will generally take care of about 80% of the work
of configuring your LAN network connection if you will let it. Note that I would strongly
suggest that you review your config file for a couple of reasons:</p>
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<li>
<p>You should never trust a setup program to properly configure your computer. If you use
a setup program, you should review the configuration yourself.</p>
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<p>If you are still learning Slackware and Linux system management, viewing a working
configuration can be helpful. You'll at least know what the configuration should look
like. This will allow you to correct problems due to misconfiguration of the system at a
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