I installed Ubuntu server 14.03 in a Virtual Machine and after installation the Internet connection was not working. To fix this I added the nameservers to the /etc/resolv.conf file like this. nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 After saving this file, I ran this command. sudo service resolveconf restartsudo…
Read MoreThe monitoring of your network interfaces just got a little easier with the iftop command. This command will return information about a certain network interface and will allow you to see who is hogging your bandwidth. Read more here: http://linux.die.net/man/8/iftop. This is one very useful Linux command. Start it like…
Read MoreThis Perl script will print some information about your networking set-up on your Linux machine. #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; $iface = "eth0"; @data = `ifconfig`; $net = $data[1]; $kernel = `uname -r`; printf("\n*————————————-*\n"); printf("The IP of %s is:%s\n", $iface, $net); printf("The kernel version is:…
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