Setting up network in Red Hat 7 in less than a minute - QUICK & EASY!!!

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: Setting up network in less than a minute.

In this video tutorial we will set IP address, netmask, DNS primary and secondary server and search domains in less than a one minute in RHEL v7.

1) to start Network Manager text user interface run nmtui command.

nmtui

2) NetworkManager-tui package must be installed to make nmtui command available (it is part of minimal RHEL v7 installation). To install NetworkManager-tui command run yum install NetworkManager-tui command.

yum install NetworkManager-tui

3) Please choose Edit a connection and then press (Add) button.

Select Ethernet type of connection and press (Create) button.

Configure NetworkManager connection.

NOTE: Name of device can be obtained with ip a command or nmcli dev show command.

4) If there is more than one NetworkManager connection configured, please activate your new connection.

To activate your connection run:
nmtui
Choose Activate a connection
Select your connection and press Activate button

This will deactivate your first (old) connection.

To check your ipaddress, please use ip a command:

ip a

To verify your default gateway, please use ip r command:

ip r

To verify DNS servers configuration, please use dig command:

dig redhat.com

NOTE: you need to install bind-utils package for dig command.

You can also try to ping some remote server:

ping redhat.com

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