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Configuration management tools - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux: Network Configuration
Configuration management tools
- [Instructor] When a system restarts, changes that we made using network interface management tools are lost and they need to be recreated. For that reason, and to make it easier to work with existing and new interfaces, there are some network configuration management tools that we're likely to use to define network configurations. There are three of these tools and they're called ifupdown, NetworkManager, and systemd-networkd. Many older distributions used ifupdown, which is a set of scripts that read configuration files for network interfaces and then act on them. The primary scripts that an ifupdown system uses are called ifup and ifdown, short for interface up and interface down, and they read configuration files that reside in different locations on different distros, usually at /etc/network/interfaces on Debian and similar systems and in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts on Red Hat and similar systems. These scripts…
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