Basic network configuration

aonate · 08-16-2022, 06:03 PM

Hello,

I'm doing a university project, I need to install the basic N series packages to be able to connect to the internet.

Could someone tell me what these packages are, please.

!!! · 08-16-2022, 07:35 PM

https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackw...slackware64/n/

Edit: See #3 & ignore all the following, because I didn't realize the OP meant 'minimum' by the word 'basic', sorry. (I was focused on the philosophy of: simply 'install everything', to avoid any possible dependency issues.)

Note that you can click on the .txt and/or Details link, to get more information on each.

P. S. Welcome to LQ, the official forum for slackware. There are tons of very nice 'slackers' (users) here!!!

Best wishes in your college project. Feel free to tell us more, and to ask questions. It would be real cool to hear of a school using slackware to teach 'true' Linux

Edit, added the next day. (Maybe OT so not a new post)
IF you're interested in the extreme minimal Linux distro, with just a single executable busybox, have a look at mll. I run it in virtualbox, and it uses just the udhcpc 'applet'. (See its /etc/autorun/20_network.sh) It's designed to be rebuilt from scratch!!! (but I must confess to the ultimate catb.org FAQ sin of being too lazy to even begin reading the few pages on how to: do it simply. Or maybe it's my five second attention span that's only long enough to read a single switch LOL)

ethelack · 08-16-2022, 09:21 PM

'N' packages required for a functioning basic install using dhcpd not NetworkManager, when you run the "netconfig" tool select the configuration for a dhcp network.

ca-certificates dhcpcd gnupg gnutls iproute2 iptables iputils libmnl links lynx net-tools nettle network-scripts openssh openssl pam-krb5 wget

henca · 08-17-2022, 12:51 AM

You will need to consider what you mean with "connect to the internet".

The net-tools package might be enough if you only want to be able to set a static ip-address and a default route.

If you want to do more than just ping ip-adresses on the internet you might also want the network-scripts package which will give you a /etc/resolv.conf which you can configure for DNS lookups of hostnames.

If you want to run a web browser like firefox you will need packages outside the n-series, but you have probably already figured that one out.

Usually, the way to install Slackware is to do a full install instead of trying to figure out what packages are missing and what functionality you did not install.

regards Henrik

elcore · 08-17-2022, 04:19 AM

Well I only got a few of them from /n/ like these packages I modified and/or upgraded manually:

Code:

ca-certificates-20211216-noarch-1
curl-7.81.0-x86_64-1
cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-x86_64-7
dnsmasq-2.86-x86_64-1
gnutls-3.7.2-x86_64-1
iptables-1.8.7-x86_64-3
openssl-1.1.1m-x86_64-1
wget-1.21.2-x86_64-1

And these few are stock DVD packages currently:

Code:

conntrack-tools-1.4.6-x86_64-3
ebtables-2.0.11-x86_64-3
gnupg-1.4.23-x86_64-4
iputils-20211215-x86_64-1
libgcrypt-1.9.4-x86_64-1
libgpg-error-1.44-x86_64-1
libmnl-1.0.4-x86_64-5
libnetfilter_acct-1.0.3-x86_64-4
libnetfilter_conntrack-1.0.8-x86_64-3
libnetfilter_cthelper-1.0.0-x86_64-4
libnetfilter_cttimeout-1.0.0-x86_64-4
libnetfilter_log-1.0.2-x86_64-1
libnetfilter_queue-1.0.5-x86_64-3
libnfnetlink-1.0.1-x86_64-4
libnftnl-1.2.1-x86_64-1
net-tools-20181103_0eebece-x86_64-3
nettle-3.7.3-x86_64-1
nftables-1.0.1-x86_64-1
nghttp2-1.46.0-x86_64-1
p11-kit-0.24.1-x86_64-1
tcpdump-4.99.1-x86_64-1
traceroute-2.1.0-x86_64-4

FWIW the rest of /n/ are fully optional on my system.

rkelsen · 08-17-2022, 05:30 AM

It is highly recommended that you run a full installation, particularly if you're new to Slackware and don't have the experience to know which packages you need.

With that said, you can get basic networking with just these packages:

n/iproute2
n/iputils
n/libmnl
n/net-tools
n/network-scripts

That gives you everything you need, and without DHCP you'll have to set an IP address manually.

!!! · 08-17-2022, 01:16 PM

None!!! (I think this might be like how the mini.iso works)

IF interested, give this answer a try. I tested it and it works (on my N00b new beautiful slackware install)
booting with the kernel parameter: single (run-level 1; I haven't [yet] tried a [Vbox] install of Slackware without the N set)

Code:

cd /boot/initrd-tree # kinda like mll distro!!!
sbin/ifconfig eth1 up # this is a link to busybox, and my device is eth1, not 0
# or: ip link set eth1 up # again, YOU probably have eth0
sbin/udhcpc -i eth1 -v # probably no switches are needed, for you. See --help
sbin/ip addr add <$ip udhcpc got>/<$mask again from udhcpc> dev eth1 # or 0 etc.
# or deprecated ifconfig eth<#> <IPaddr> up
sbin/ip route add default via <$router> dev eth1 # or deprecated route command
# see mll's /etc/05_rc.dhcp .... I think udhcpc passes those variables!!!
ping -c 2 8.8.8.8 # worked for me
# echo 'nameserver 8.8.8.8' > /etc/resolv.conf
# ping LQ.org  # works!!! DONE!!!