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.

EXERCISES

Before you move on to Chapter $4,$ try out the skills you learned from this chapter

by completing the following exercises:

Find information on your active network interfaces.

Change the IP address on etho to $192\mathrm{.}168\mathrm{.}1\mathrm{.}1.$

Change your hardware address on etho.

Check whether you have any available wireless interfaces active.

Reset your IP address to a DHCP$-$assigned address.

Find the nameserver and email server of your favorite website.

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.