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RHEL 8: Managing Networking

by Andrew Mallett

Being able to understand and configure networking on your Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is an essential skill. This course will teach you to use tools and the skills to use those tools in configuring and protecting your system on a network.

What you'll learn

Connecting your system to the network is a necessary risk, but can be mitigated by protecting the system once connected. In this course, RHEL 8: Managing Networking, you’ll learn to manage networking on Linux. First, you’ll explore the ip command and configuring and reading networking data. Next, you’ll discover how to use the command line tools to add all the configuration data needed to connect a system to the internet. Finally, you’ll learn how to implement firewalls with both firewalld and nftables as well as fail2ban. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of internetworking Linux needed to manage RHEL systems connecting to a network and the internet while maintaining adequate security.

About the author

Andrew is an all around Linux professional with in depth knowledge of the OS and this is supported with scripting in bash, perl, python and ruby and application development in C, C++ and Java. Having worked for many years in training, Andrew has developed automated course build systems after endless time wasted on Friday nights. The first build system he built was aptly named "Friday nights." This has inspired his interest in all things deployment related. He has authored training courses on M... more

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