Editing Network Settings (section)

== Troubleshooting ==
Running the following commands in a terminal window [[Terminal Guide]] can assist you in troubleshooting network issues by restarting your network devices or giving you information about the current values applied to your network interfaces.<br /><br />

<font class="code">/etc/init.d/networking restart</font> - this restarts the networking and is usually sufficient to make changes take effect but sometimes a reboot is required.<br /><br />

<font class="code">ifconfig</font> - shows all networking information, you are usually just interested in eth0 (usually wired) and wifi0 or ath0 or eth1 or ? (usually wireless) , lo is the loopback device, you can ignore it<br /><br />

<font class="code">iwconfig</font> - shows wireless specific information including signal strength (usually called Link Quality, sometimes out of 5, sometimes out of 70, etc.)<br /><br />

<font class="code">ping ''[IP Address/web address]''</font> - sends out test signals to a network address and reports back if they were received or dropped. Useful in troubleshooting communications between devices.