Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 656

/etc/HOSTNAME
This contains the hostname without the domain name attached. This file is read by
several scripts while the machine is booting. It may only contain one line in which the
hostname is set.
30.6.2 Testing the Configuration
Before you write your configuration to the configuration files, you can test it. To set
up a test configuration, use the ip command. To test the connection, use the ping
command. Older configuration tools, ifconfig and route, are also available.
The commands ip, ifconfig, and route change the network configuration directly
without saving it in the configuration file. Unless you enter your configuration in the
correct configuration files, the changed network configuration is lost on reboot.
Configuring a Network Interface with ip
ip is a tool to show and configure routing, network devices, policy routing, and tunnels.
It was designed as a replacement for the older tools ifconfig and route.
ip is a very complex tool. Its common syntax is ip options object command.
You can work with the following objects:
link
This object represents a network device.
address
This object represents the IP address of device.
neighbour
This object represents a ARP or NDISC cache entry.
route
This object represents the routing table entry.
rule
This object represents a rule in the routing policy database.
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