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## Configurare la rete

Ubuntu è corredato da una serie di utilità grafiche per la configurazione dei dispositivi di rete. Questa sezione è diretta agli amministratori di server e si focalizza sulla gestione della rete da riga di comando.

### Ethernet Interfaces

Ethernet interfaces are identified by the system using the naming convention of ethX, where X represents a numeric value. The first Ethernet interface is typically identified as eth0, the second as eth1, and all others should move up in numerical order.

#### Identify Ethernet Interfaces

To quickly identify all available Ethernet interfaces, you can use the ifconfig command as shown below.

    ifconfig -a | grep eth
    eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:c5:4a:16:5a

Another application that can help identify all network interfaces available to your system is the lshw command. In the example below, lshw shows a single Ethernet interface with the logical name of eth0 along with bus information, driver details and all supported capabilities.

    sudo lshw -class network
      *-network
           description: Ethernet interface
           product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
           vendor: Broadcom Corporation
           physical id: 0
           bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
           logical name: eth0
           version: 02
           serial: 00:15:c5:4a:16:5a
           size: 10MB/s
           capacity: 100MB/s
           width: 32 bits
           clock: 33MHz
           capabilities: (snipped for brevity)
           configuration: (snipped for brevity)
           resources: irq:17 memory:ef9fe000-ef9fffff

#### Ethernet Interface Logical Names

Interface logical names are configured in the file `/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.` If you would like control which interface receives a particular logical name, find the line matching the interfaces physical MAC address and modify the value of NAME=ethX to the desired logical name. Reboot the system to commit your changes.

    SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:15:c5:4a:16:5a", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"
    SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:15:c5:4a:16:5b", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"

#### Ethernet Interface Settings

ethtool is a program that displays and changes Ethernet card settings such as auto-negotiation, port speed, duplex mode, and Wake-on-LAN. It is not installed by default, but is available for installation in the repositories.

    sudo apt-get install ethtool

The following is an example of how to view supported features and configured settings of an Ethernet interface.

    sudo ethtool eth0
    Settings for eth0:
            Supported ports: [ TP ]
            Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                    100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                    1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
            Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
            Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                    100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                    1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
            Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
            Speed: 1000Mb/s
            Duplex: Full
            Port: Twisted Pair
            PHYAD: 1
            Transceiver: internal
            Auto-negotiation: on
            Supports Wake-on: g
            Wake-on: d
            Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
            Link detected: yes

Changes made with the ethtool command are temporary and will be lost after a reboot. If you would like to retain settings, simply add the desired ethtool command to a pre-up statement in the interface configuration file `/etc/network/interfaces`.

The following is an example of how the interface identified as eth0 could be permanently configured with a port speed of 1000Mb/s running in full duplex mode.

    auto eth0
    iface eth0 inet static
    pre-up /usr/sbin/ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full

Although the example above shows the interface configured to use the static method, it actually works with other methods as well, such as DHCP. The example is meant to demonstrate only proper placement of the pre-up statement in relation to the rest of the interface configuration.

### IP Addressing

The following section describes the process of configuring your systems IP address and default gateway needed for communicating on a local area network and the Internet.

#### Temporary IP Address Assignment

For temporary network configurations, you can use standard commands such as ip, ifconfig and route, which are also found on most other GNU/Linux operating systems. These commands allow you to configure settings which take effect immediately, however they are not persistent and will be lost after a reboot.

To temporarily configure an IP address, you can use the ifconfig command in the following manner. Just modify the IP address and subnet mask to match your network requirements.

    sudo ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0

To verify the IP address configuration of eth0, you can use the ifconfig command in the following manner.

    ifconfig eth0
    eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:c5:4a:16:5a
              inet addr:10.0.0.100  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
              inet6 addr: fe80::215:c5ff:fe4a:165a/64 Scope:Link
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:466475604 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:403172654 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
              RX bytes:2574778386 (2.5 GB)  TX bytes:1618367329 (1.6 GB)
              Interrupt:16

To configure a default gateway, you can use the route command in the following manner. Modify the default gateway address to match your network requirements.

    sudo route add default gw 10.0.0.1 eth0

To verify your default gateway configuration, you can use the route command in the following manner.

    route -n
    Kernel IP routing table
    Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
    10.0.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     1      0        0 eth0
    0.0.0.0         10.0.0.1        0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

If you require DNS for your temporary network configuration, you can add DNS server IP addresses in the file `/etc/resolv.conf`. The example below shows how to enter two DNS servers to `/etc/resolv.conf`, which should be changed to servers appropriate for your network. A more lengthy description of DNS client configuration is in a following section.

    nameserver 8.8.8.8
    nameserver 8.8.4.4

If you no longer need this configuration and wish to purge all IP configuration from an interface, you can use the ip command with the flush option as shown below.

    ip addr flush eth0

Flushing the IP configuration using the ip command does not clear the contents of `/etc/resolv.conf`. You must remove or modify those entries manually.

#### Dynamic IP Address Assignment (DHCP Client)

To configure your server to use DHCP for dynamic address assignment, add the dhcp method to the inet address family statement for the appropriate interface in the file `/etc/network/interfaces`. The example below assumes you are configuring your first Ethernet interface identified as eth0.

    auto eth0
    iface eth0 inet dhcp

By adding an interface configuration as shown above, you can manually enable the interface through the ifup command which initiates the DHCP process via dhclient.

    sudo ifup eth0

To manually disable the interface, you can use the ifdown command, which in turn will initiate the DHCP release process and shut down the interface.

    sudo ifdown eth0

#### Static IP Address Assignment

To configure your system to use a static IP address assignment, add the static method to the inet address family statement for the appropriate interface in the file `/etc/network/interfaces`. The example below assumes you are configuring your first Ethernet interface identified as eth0. Change the address, netmask, and gateway values to meet the requirements of your network.

    auto eth0
    iface eth0 inet static
    address 10.0.0.100
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gateway 10.0.0.1

By adding an interface configuration as shown above, you can manually enable the interface through the ifup command.

    sudo ifup eth0

To manually disable the interface, you can use the ifdown command.

    sudo ifdown eth0

#### Loopback Interface

The loopback interface is identified by the system as lo and has a default IP address of 127.0.0.1. It can be viewed using the ifconfig command.

    ifconfig lo
    lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
              inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
              inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
              UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
              RX packets:2718 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:2718 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
              RX bytes:183308 (183.3 KB)  TX bytes:183308 (183.3 KB)

By default, there should be two lines in `/etc/network/interfaces` responsible for automatically configuring your loopback interface. It is recommended that you keep the default settings unless you have a specific purpose for changing them. An example of the two default lines are shown below.

    auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback

### Name Resolution

Name resolution as it relates to IP networking is the process of mapping IP addresses to hostnames, making it easier to identify resources on a network. The following section will explain how to properly configure your system for name resolution using DNS and static hostname records.

#### DNS Client Configuration

To configure your system to use DNS for name resolution, add the IP addresses of the DNS servers that are appropriate for your network in the file `/etc/resolv.conf`. You can also add an optional DNS suffix search-lists to match your network domain names.

Below is an example of a typical configuration of `/etc/resolv.conf` for a server on the domain "example.com" and using two public DNS servers.

    search example.com
    nameserver 8.8.8.8
    nameserver 8.8.4.4

The search option can also be used with multiple domain names so that DNS queries will be appended in the order in which they are entered. For example, your network may have multiple sub-domains to search; a parent domain of example.com, and two sub-domains, sales.example.com and dev.example.com.

If you have multiple domains you wish to search, your configuration might look like the following.

    search example.com sales.example.com dev.example.com
    nameserver 8.8.8.8
    nameserver 8.8.4.4

If you try to ping a host with the name of server1, your system will automatically query DNS for its Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) in the following order:

1. server1.example.com

2. server1.sales.example.com

3. server1.dev.example.com

If no matches are found, the DNS server will provide a result of notfound and the DNS query will fail.

#### Static Hostnames

Static hostnames are locally defined hostname-to-IP mappings located in the file `/etc/hosts`. Entries in the `hosts` file will have precedence over DNS by default. This means that if your system tries to resolve a hostname and it matches an entry in /etc/hosts, it will not attempt to look up the record in DNS. In some configurations, especially when Internet access is not required, servers that communicate with a limited number of resources can be conveniently set to use static hostnames instead of DNS.

The following is an example of a `hosts` file where a number of local servers have been identified by simple hostnames, aliases and their equivalent Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN's).

    127.0.0.1	localhost
    127.0.1.1	ubuntu-server
    10.0.0.11	server1 vpn server1.example.com
    10.0.0.12	server2 mail server2.example.com
    10.0.0.13	server3 www server3.example.com
    10.0.0.14	server4 file server4.example.com

In the above example, notice that each of the servers have been given aliases in addition to their proper names and FQDN's. Server1 has been mapped to the name vpn, server2 is referred to as mail, server3 as www, and server4 as file.

#### Name Service Switch Configuration

The order in which your system selects a method of resolving hostnames to IP addresses is controlled by the Name Service Switch (NSS) configuration file `/etc/nsswitch.conf`. As mentioned in the previous section, typically static hostnames defined in the systems `/etc/hosts` file have precedence over names resolved from DNS. The following is an example of the line responsible for this order of hostname lookups in the file `/etc/nsswitch.conf`.

    hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

- files first tries to resolve static hostnames located in `/etc/hosts`.

- mdns4_minimal attempts to resolve the name using Multicast DNS.

- [NOTFOUND=return] means that any response of notfound by the preceding mdns4_minimal process should be treated as authoritative and that the system should not try to continue hunting for an answer.

- dns represents a legacy unicast DNS query.

- mdns4 represents a Multicast DNS query.

To modify the order of the above mentioned name resolution methods, you can simply change the hosts: string to the value of your choosing. For example, if you prefer to use legacy Unicast DNS versus Multicast DNS, you can change the string in `/etc/nsswitch.conf` as shown below.

    hosts:          files dns [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4_minimal mdns4

### Bridging

Il "bridging" di molteplici interfacce è una configurazione avanzata, ma utile in diversi scenari. Uno di questi scenari può consistere nel configurare un bridge con molteplici interfacce di rete e usare un firewall per filtrare il traffico tra due segmenti della rete. Un altro scenario consiste nell'usare un bridge su un sistema con una sola interfaccia per permettere alle macchine virtuali accesso diretto alla rete esterna. L'esempio che segue prende in considerazione quest'ultimo scenario.

Prima di configurare un bridge è necessario installare il pacchetto bridge-utils. In un terminale digitare:

    sudo apt-get install bridge-utils

Configurare il bridge modificando il file `/etc/network/interfaces`:

    auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback

    auto br0
    iface br0 inet static
            address 192.168.0.10
            network 192.168.0.0
            netmask 255.255.255.0
            broadcast 192.168.0.255
            gateway 192.168.0.1
            bridge_ports eth0
            bridge_fd 9
            bridge_hello 2
            bridge_maxage 12
            bridge_stp off

Inserire i valori appropriati per la propria interfaccia di rete.

Riavviare la rete per abilitare il bridge sull'interfaccia:

    sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

La nuova interfaccia dovrebbe ora essere funzionante. L'applicazione brctl fornisce utili informazioni riguardo lo stato del bridge, controlla le interfacce che compongono il bridge, ecc... Per maggiori informazioni, consultare la pagina di manuale: man brctl.

### Risorse

- The Ubuntu Wiki Network page has links to articles covering more advanced network configuration.

- The interfaces man page has details on more options for `/etc/network/interfaces`.

- The dhclient man page has details on more options for configuring DHCP client settings.

- For more information on DNS client configuration see the resolver man page. Also, Chapter 6 of O'Reilly's Linux Network Administrator's Guide is a good source of resolver and name service configuration information.

- For more information on bridging see the brctl man page and the Linux Foundation's Net:Bridge page.

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