Question about networking and such.

[Jayce]

I'm taking internet security at school. We've been working with windows machines... linux starts next term.

But I'm a little curious since I run Ubuntu 95% of the time at home, and Win2k4 the rest of the time for gaming and such.

How would I do certain things in Ubuntu, like changing from DHCP to Static IPs? How would I ping IPs? How could I tell what IRQ my keyboard sits on? I know these may be answers you'd know ALREADY but I was just wondering where I'd find it.

I guess I have a lot to learn yet. I been using Linux and studying the Ubuntu forums for five straight months and everyday I learn something new.

Figured I'd ask.

 

[TheMajor]

Win2k4?

 

[horndude]

best way to learn things like this is to do so in a manner which makes the distro your using irrelavent, which 99% of the time means commandline

dhcp is activated usually by a script which calls a daemon called dhcpcd usually, the script is usually in /etc/rc.d/? for bsd type init scripts and for redhat style its somewhere else in /etc

to activate a static ip simply use ifconfig and set the desired ip,subnet mask, and interface

to find out system info like interrupts and stuff like that, you will find that info in /proc/sys

configuring linux is simply nothing more than basic text files and usually bash scripts-----those GUI's you see all the time like in ubuntu are nothing more than front ends which parse what you input into text files

 

[Jayce]

win2k4. I meant win2ksp4.