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Networking

The preferred way of setting up your network connection is through the use of the netconfig program.
You can, of course, edit the network configuration files by hand. They are /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2

rc.inet1

rc.inet1's role is simple: it configures your networking devices and sets up your routing. Essentially, rc.inet1 is the file that gives you a network in the first place, reading config options from its config file: rc.inet1.conf.

This configuration file is pretty simple, it supports up to 3 different networking devices. For each device there's a section like the following:

# Config information for eth0:
IPADDR[0]="192.168.66.4"
NETMASK[0]="255.255.255.0"
USE_DHCP[0]=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""

Type the following command to restart Slackware networking: # /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart