Analyzing and Managing Networks
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Summary
Any hacker needs some basic Linux networking skills to connect, analyze,
and manage networks. As you progress, these
skills will become more and
more useful for doing reconnaissance, spoofing, and connecting to target
systems.
E XERCISES
Before you move on to Chapter 4, try out the skills you
learned from this chapter
by completing the following exercises:
1. Find information on your active network interfaces.
2. Change the IP address on
eth0
to 192.168.1.1.
3. Change your hardware address on
eth0
.
4. Check whether you have any available wireless interfaces active.
5. Reset your IP address to a DHCP-assigned address.
6. Find the nameserver and email server of your favorite website.
7. Add Google’s DNS server to your
/etc/resolv.conf
file
so your system
refers to that server when it can’t resolve a domain name query with
your local DNS server.
