Let’s modify the last connection profile and add two dns servers. # nmcli con add type ethernet con-name static2 ifname enp0s3 ip4 192.168.1.50/24 gw4 192.168.1.1Ĭheck its configuration: # cat ifcfg-static2 Let’s make a new Ethernet connection profile with name static2, which will be assigned to device enp0s3, with static IP 192.168.1.50, subnet mask 255.255.255.0=24 and gateway 192.168.1.1. Otherwise you will end up with two IP addresses: one from dhcp server and the static one. However if you modify a dhcp connection and change it to static don’t forget to change its “thod” from “auto” to “manual”. Hint: We can modify any connection with the “nmcli con mod“ command. Let’s make a new ethernet connection with name Myhome1, assigned to device enp0s3: # nmcli con add type ethernet con-name Myhome1 ifname enp0s3Ĭheck its configuration: # cat ifcfg-Myhome1Īs you can see it has BOOTPROTO=dhcp, because we didn’t give any static ip address. ifname – for the device name which is assigned our connection.The minimum properties we must define are type, ifname and con-name: We can make our first connection profile. # nmcli con down Myoffice1 nmcli con up static1 If I bring “up” my connection profile with name static1 then my device will take the static IP 192.168.1.40 as it is defined in the connection profile. I see that my device enp0s3 took the 192.168.1.6 IP from dhcp server, because the connection profile Myoffice1 which is up has a dhcp configuration. If I check the ip addresses of my devices: # ip a Thus, the following commands are equal: # nmcli connection show Hint: You can use the auto-complete hitting Tab when you use nmcli, but is better to use minimal format of the command. Hint: If you want to see only the active connections, type: # nmcli con show -a In the above image you can see the two connections which are active: Myoffice1 and enp0s8. The last column of devices helps us understand which connection is “UP” and running and which is not. Now, let’s move on and check our connections: # nmcli con show ONBOOT, if it has value “yes” it means, that on boot our computer will read this profile and try to assign it to its device.DNS1, DNS2, two dns servers we want to use.For example values of 16, 24, 26 means that the first 16, 24 or 26 bits respectively are 1 and the rest 0, defining exactly what the network address is and what is the range of ip which can be assigned. You can understand better the subnet mask if you write down its binary format. IPADDR, is the static IP we assign to our profile.BOOTPROTO, if it has value “dhcp” then our connection profile takes dynamic IP from dhcp server, if it has value “none” then it takes no dynamic IP and probably whe assign a static IP.
Sample Output ifcfg-enp0s3 ifdown-isdn ifup ifup-plip ifup-tunnel We find them in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory. We call these files also as “connection profiles”.
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They need us to make a configuration file to tell them how to achieve network connectivity. It is simple to understand that our devices by themselves can do nothing. In the last column we see our configuration files which is used by our devices in order to connect to the network. Naming depends on the type of the network card (if it is onboard, pci card, etc).
In your machine you could see other names. We have one network cards with name enp0s3. A good starting point would be to check our devices: # nmcli dev statusĪs we can see in the first column is a list of our network devices.