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Guided Exercise: Examining Network Configuration

In this lab, you will examine the network configuration of the current system.

Outcomes

Identify the current network interfaces and basic network addresses.

Reset your serverX system.

  1. Display the current IP address and netmask for all interfaces.

    [student@serverX ~]$ ip addr
    1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
        link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
        inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
           valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
        inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
           valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
        link/ether 52:54:00:00:00:0b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
        inet 172.25.X.11/24 brd 172.25.X.255 scope global dynamic eth0
           valid_lft 12704sec preferred_lft 12704sec
        inet6 fe80::5054:ff:fe00:b/64 scope link 
           valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    
  2. Display the statistics for the eth0 interface.

    [student@serverX ~]$ ip -s link show eth0
    2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT qlen 1000
        link/ether 52:54:00:00:00:0b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
        RX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped overrun mcast   
        418398     4588     0       0       0       0      
        TX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped carrier collsns 
        360733     1730     0       0       0       0      
    
  3. Display the routing information.

    [student@serverX ~]$ ip route
    default via 172.25.X.254 dev eth0  proto static  metric 1024 
    172.25.X.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 172.25.X.11 
    
  4. Verify that the router is accessible.

    [student@serverX ~]$ ping -c3 172.25.X.254
    PING 172.25.X.254 (172.25.X.254) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from 172.25.X.254: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.489 ms
    64 bytes from 172.25.X.254: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.510 ms
    64 bytes from 172.25.X.254: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.458 ms
    
    --- 172.25.X.254 ping statistics ---
    3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1999ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.458/0.485/0.510/0.033 ms
    
  5. Show all the hops between the local system and classroom.example.com.

    [student@serverX ~]$ tracepath classroom.example.com
     1:  classroom.example.com                                 0.522ms !H
         Resume: pmtu 65535 
    
  6. Display the listening TCP sockets on the local system.

    [student@serverX ~]$ ss -lt
    State      Recv-Q Send-Q      Local Address:Port          Peer Address:Port   
    LISTEN     0      128                     *:55630                    *:*       
    LISTEN     0      128                     *:sunrpc                   *:*       
    LISTEN     0      128                     *:ssh                      *:*       
    LISTEN     0      100             127.0.0.1:smtp                     *:*       
    LISTEN     0      128                    :::sunrpc                  :::*       
    LISTEN     0      128                    :::ssh                     :::*       
    LISTEN     0      128                    :::33079                   :::*       
    LISTEN     0      100                   ::1:smtp                    :::*    
    
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