Managing and using network connectivity on a unix system
Use this tag for general questions about network connectivity:
- configuring network interfaces
- diagnosing network issues
- establishing a network connection
- etc.
Questions about networking between a unix system and a non-unix system are on-topic unless the issue is clearly on the non-unix side.
Most questions should also have one or more tag to identify the aspect or protocol that the question is about:
- Physical protocols and interfaces: ethernet, wifi, …
- Link and transport protocols: ppp, atm, ip, ipv6, ipsec, tcp, udp, icmp, ssl, socks, pptp, …
- Application protocols: bittorrent, dhcp, dns, ftp, http, nntp, ntp, samba, smtp, snmp, ssh, …
Do not use the networking tag if your question is specifically about a networked application and not about network configuration. For example:
- How do I configure my Linux firewall to let FTP through? ftp networking iptables
- How can I upload only files that are more recent than the remote version over FTP? ftp timestamps
