Installation of Network in Linux Server

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Installation of network:
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Installation of network in Linux server
The interface of a netork in Ununtu server starts with eth(number). We check the interface name
in Linux server by issuing the command below;
For our case interface name is eth(0)
Step I:
Our first step is to allocate temporary IP address by the command as shown in the snippet below;
Step II:
Our next step is to allocate temporary default gateway as illustrated by the snippet below;
Step III:
Our next step is to edit the configuration file of DNS server IP

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Allocating DHCP
Add the following two lines to the network configuration file:
Our next step is to restart the network as illustrated by the snippet below;
Hardening the network
Data innovation systems can be depicted from various perspectives, however the portrayal that
appears to give the best comprehension of how to safeguard systems is to contrast it with an
onion. In the event that you think about a system as being made out of various layers, the furthest

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layer is the part that you contact, the limit among it and the world. As you strip back the layers,
you draw nearer to the significant "center." In system terms, the center frequently speaks to our
most profitable information and applications. Each layer of the system gives an alternate degree
of usefulness and requires its very own remarkable arrangement of answers for satisfactorily
secure the data navigating it between the center and the limit.
Techniques of hardening a network
Here are some of the hardening techniques in a network;
 Installation of firewall in a network system. An appropriately arranged firewall is one
of the most significant parts and comprehensive framework security(Lepak, Talbot,
White, Beck, and Naffziger, 2017). As a matter of course, Ubuntu accompanies a firewall
arrangement instrument called UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall). UFW is an easy to
understand front-end for overseeing iptables firewall principles and its primary objective
is to make monitoring iptables simpler or as the name says uncomplicated. Install UFW
with the command below;
Check the status with the command below;