[Cialug] Networking config

L. V. Lammert lvl at omnitec.net
Fri Jul 21 00:58:10 UTC 2017


On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Brian Wood wrote:

> I'm just connecting two machineswith an ethernet cable.  'ip link show'
> says the link is up, but it only lists an ip 6 address.  How can I get
> an ipv4 address?I ran dhclient, but that didn't help.  Thanks.
>
Two ways to get an IPv4 address - obtain one from a DHCP server, or assign
it statically. As neither of those machine is probably running a DHCP
server, you would have to assign them manually on each side.

	Lee


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