Introduction

The recipes in this chapter cover various networking tasks that should prove useful to you as a CentOS administrator. You'll learn how to configure a static IP address, bind multiple addresses to a single Ethernet device, and bond two devices together. You'll also see how to configure the system's firewall using FirewallD and iptables, and how to set up a DHCP server to distribute IP addresses, which allows other computers using dynamic networking configurations to access the network. The remaining recipes will teach you how to set up centralized file storage using NFS and Samba.