.: Advanced Linux Networking :.

Many Linux distributions provide GUI interfaces that permit configuration of basic networking features, common servers, and often other aspects of system operation. These tools vary substantially from one distribution to another, although they do share certain commonalities. They can usually be launched from a menu option in the distribution's default K Desktop Environment (KDE) or GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME) desktops, or they can be launched by typing their names in xterms. (You may need to be root to launch these tools, particularly in the latter way.) These tools include Linuxconf (used by Red Hat and many of its derivatives, including Mandrake), YaST and YaST2 (used by SuSE), and ksysv (a GUI variant on ntsysv, discussed earlier).