[Novalug] connecting to the internet

Daniel Hauck daniel@yacg.com
Mon Jul 16 03:41:33 EDT 2012


Ever have one of those days when everything you thought you knew was wrong?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifconfig

Yeah... me too...  I feel like I just woke up from a coma.


On 07/16/2012 12:29 AM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
> Since when is ifconfig deprecated, and which backwards distro is this 
> the case?
>
> ifup and ifdown may work, depending on the distro, but I've been using 
> ifconfig to get network addresses of my interfaces since I started 
> using Linux 13 years ago, and my work trains our technicians to use 
> ifconfig for the same purpose.
>
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Ed James <edward.james@gmail.com 
> <mailto:edward.james@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Well, that was interesting... "ifconfig" and "netstat --interfaces"
>     show me the usual eth0 and lo, whereas "ip addr show" also
>     shows me sit0, which I've never heard of.  Did the usual
>     research so now I'm up on it.  I'm counting that as the something
>     new I'm supposed to learn each day.  Tnx for the tip.
>
>     Ed James
>
>     On 7/15/12, Peter Larsen <plarsen@famlarsen.homelinux.com
>     <mailto:plarsen@famlarsen.homelinux.com>> wrote:
>     ...
>     > ifconfig is "deprecated" - has been for a while. The better way
>     is "ip
>     > addr show".
>     ...
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