How to install and use system-config-network-tui in RHEL-Red Hat/Fedora Linux?

This is the network configuration tool, supporting Ethernet and Wireless

Note: You must have root to install the package. To install this package in Red Hat/Fedora Linux.

#yum install system-config-network-tui

You can check the details of this package system-config-network-tui

# yum info system-config-network-tui
Installed Packages
Name: system-config-network-tui
Arch : noarch
Version : 1.3.99.19
Release : 2.el5
Size : 4.7 M
Repo : installed
Summary : The NEtwork Adminstration Tool
URL : http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/config-tools/redhat-config-network.html
License : GPL
Description: This is the network configuration tool, supporting Ethernet,
: Wireless, TokenRing, ADSL, ISDN and PPP.
#system-config-network-tui

Will bring up the following screen:

From here you can edit your wireless/Ethernet or DNS, in my case we only have an Ethernet card.


We are going to edit "eth0"


We have the following options from here:
  • Use DHCP
  • Assign or change the static IP Address, Subnet Mask and Gateway


We can also edit our DNS settings

Assign a primary and secondary DNS server



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