From the course: Linux: Network Configuration
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Using NetworkManager's command-line tools - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux: Network Configuration
Using NetworkManager's command-line tools
- [Instructor] Nmcli is the NetworkManager Command-Line Interface. It gives us a handful of different ways of looking at our network information when we're using NetworkManager to manage our network configuration. Just typing nmcli at the command line shows a summary of our network devices and their status, and provides some information about the current DNS configuration too. We can also ask nmcli to show us various aspects of the system's networking configuration, including more information about connections, devices and so on. Like the IP command, nmcli offers some sub commands, and in this video, we'll focus on two: connection and device. These can be written like this. As four words, shortened a bit or shortened to one letter. Nmcli connection shows us the connections that NetworkManager is actively managing. Remember that a connection is a set of configuration information for an interface, and here we can…
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