<story><title>Ethernet: The Basics</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2024/02/12/ethernet-for-hackers-the-very-basics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atoav</author><text>Tangentially related question: Does anybody have a good &lt;i&gt;overview&lt;/i&gt; resource how to configure networking in a linux system (exluding graphical tools)?&lt;p&gt;I know there are multiple ways to do similar things and settings are somewhat scattered into different files, but this is why I wondered if there is some kind of &lt;i&gt;overview&lt;/i&gt; that I could use as a starting point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>betaby</author><text>This is the best, seriously &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&amp;#x2F;title&amp;#x2F;systemd-networkd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&amp;#x2F;title&amp;#x2F;systemd-networkd&lt;/a&gt; and it&amp;#x27;s not specific to Arch, since systemd is in 99% of distros nowadays.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ethernet: The Basics</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2024/02/12/ethernet-for-hackers-the-very-basics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atoav</author><text>Tangentially related question: Does anybody have a good &lt;i&gt;overview&lt;/i&gt; resource how to configure networking in a linux system (exluding graphical tools)?&lt;p&gt;I know there are multiple ways to do similar things and settings are somewhat scattered into different files, but this is why I wondered if there is some kind of &lt;i&gt;overview&lt;/i&gt; that I could use as a starting point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hiAndrewQuinn</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Networking for System Administrators&lt;/i&gt; is often my recommendation for this. The author walks all the way up the stack from the physical layer up and name-drops every program and file he uses: `ethtool`, `&amp;#x2F;etc&amp;#x2F;hosts`, `&amp;#x2F;etc&amp;#x2F;resolv.conf`, `ipconfig`, `netcat`, `tcpdump` ...&lt;p&gt;I quite liked the accessible style, and got a lot out of making Anki flashcards for all of them.</text></comment>