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Review Questions: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Administration (Course 3037) 1-4188-3731-8 Chapter 7 Answers

This document contains review questions and answers about configuring TCP/IP networking in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. It discusses IP addresses, netmasks, DNS servers, default gateways, and network interface configuration files. It also covers commands for configuring IP addresses, aliases and routes like ifconfig, ip, route and ping. Discovery exercises provide examples for configuring network interfaces, IP aliases and static routing.

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Review Questions: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Administration (Course 3037) 1-4188-3731-8 Chapter 7 Answers

This document contains review questions and answers about configuring TCP/IP networking in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. It discusses IP addresses, netmasks, DNS servers, default gateways, and network interface configuration files. It also covers commands for configuring IP addresses, aliases and routes like ifconfig, ip, route and ping. Discovery exercises provide examples for configuring network interfaces, IP aliases and static routing.

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Administration (Course 3037)


1-4188-3731-8
Chapter 7 Answers

Review Questions
1. What must each computer have in order to participate on a TCP/IP network as well as
contact hosts on remote networks by name? (Choose all that apply.)
a. IP address
b. netmask
c. DNS server
d. default gateway
ANSWER: a,b,c,d
2. How long is the host ID by default in a Class A network?
e. 1 byte
f. 2 bytes
g. 3 bytes
h. 4 bytes
ANSWER: c
3. Which of the following are Class B IP addresses? (Choose all that apply.)
i. 192.168.1.1
j. 177.16.41.10
k. 127.0.0.1
l. 133.1.1.2
ANSWER: b,d
4. What network address is reserved for loopback? _____
ANSWER: 127.0.0.1
5. What name is used to identify the first Ethernet network interface in Linux? _____
ANSWER: eth0
6. What file stores the list of DNS servers that your computer can contact to resolve
hostnames into IP addresses?

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m. /etc/resolv.conf
n. /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts
o. /etc/dns.sysconfig
p. /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-dns
ANSWER: a
7. What command can you use to configure the IP address 192.168.1.1 and default subnet
mask on your first Ethernet network interface? _____
ANSWER: ipconfig eth0 192.168.1.1
8. What command can you use to configure an additional IP address of 192.168.1.2 and
default subnet mask on the same network interface configured in Question 7? _____
ANSWER: ipconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.2
9. Which of the following commands may be used to view IP configuration? (Choose all that
apply.)
q. ifshow eth0
r. ip address show
s. ifconfig -a
t. ifstatus eth0
ANSWER: b,c,d
10. What file contains the information used to configure your second Ethernet network
interface at boot time? _____
ANSWER: /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifcfg-eth-id-hardwareaddress
11. What line would you configure in the file described in Question 10 to obtain an IP
configuration from a DHCP server? _____
ANSWER: BOOTPROTO=dhcp
12. How many DNS servers may be listed in /etc/resolv.conf?
u. one
v. three
w. ten
x. unlimited
ANSWER: b
13. Which two commands could you type at a command prompt to add a route to the
188.16.0.0 network via the router 192.168.1.254?

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y. ip route add 188.16.0.0/16 via 192.168.1.254


z. route add 188.16.0.0 via 192.168.1.254
aa. ip route add gw 192.168.1.254 via 188.16.0.0/16
bb. route add net 188.16.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 192.168.1.254
ANSWER: a,d
14. Which file could you use to configure the static route configured in Question 13 for use
with all network interfaces on your system? _____
ANSWER: /etc/sysconfig/network/routes
15. What command could you use send 5 ICMP echo requests to the host 192.168.1.254?
_____
ANSWER: ping c 5 192.168.1.254
16. What command could you use to listen to all traffic sent to port 1433 on your computer?
_____
ANSWER: netcat v l p 1433
17. What option(s) to the netstat command could you use to display the routing table? _____
ANSWER: -r (or rn)
18. What command could you use to listen to all packets received on your first Ethernet
network inteface? _____
ANSWER: tcpdump

Discovery Exercises
Network Interface Commands
a.
b.
c.
d.

ifconfig eth0 10.10.10.x


ifconfig (or ip address show)
ifdown eth0; ifup eth0 (or ifconfig eth0 down; ifconfig eth0 up)
ifconfig (or ip address show), /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-id-MACaddress

Configuring IP Aliases
a. ifconfig eth0:1 10.10.10.x
b. ifconfig (or ip address show)

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c. ping IP_address
d. ifdown eth0; ifup eth0 (or ifconfig eth0 down; ifconfig eth0 up)

Routing Commands
a.
b.
c.
d.

route add net 42.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 gw 10.18.11.88


ip route add 43.0.0.0/8 via 10.68.1.9
route (or ip route show or netstat r)
route del net 42.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0; route del net 43.0.0.0 netmast
255.0.0.0 (or ip route del 42.0.0.0/8; ip route del 43.0.0.0/8)

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