Configuring Network Connections

The Network preferences pane is the GUI brain center of the OS X interface to TCP/IP. This pane, in actuality, just provides a series of hints to the underlying Unix TCP/IP control software, but it does so in a much prettier and often more convenient fashion than twiddling configuration parameters at the command line. The primary control with which you should familiarize yourself is the Configuration menu. In previous versions of Mac OS, various portions of the networking software were configured by separate control panels, and each panel was controlled by its own independent saved configuration setting. Mac OS X has instead placed all network configurations under a single parent control pane, with an umbrella ...

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