Because no confirmation
prompt appears after you change a password from the command line, it is crucial that
you proceed very carefully and record your new password to reduce the possibility of
a typographical error.
Configuring Your Network Interfaces
By default, your new Server Core installation uses DHCP to acquire an IP address. If
you will be using a static IP address for the server, you will need to assign this using
the Netsh command. This requires more than one command sequence since you will
need to take a number of steps. Your first step is to list all your network adapters. This
is important, because most servers come with more than one network interface, plus
the default loopback interface. When you configure the IP address, you will need to
specify which interface you are going to modify. To list all your network adapters, enter
the following:
Netsh interface ipv4 show interfaces
Although IPv6 is not currently widely implemented, except probably in test labs,
Windows Server 2008 natively supports it. An equivalent command for IPv6 is as simple
as replacing ipv4 in this command with ipv6. The output of the command on my Server
Core installation is shown in Figure 2-4.
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The first column of the command??™s output shows a parameter called Idx. This is the
unique number assigned by the system to identify each network interface.
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