[aklug] Re: viewing network addressing information before ifconfig?

Then somebody removed it from /sbin/

it's been a staple of linux distros since 1993, according to my
original copy of Yggdrasil. (kernel 0.95, fyi)

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> On Behalf Of Christopher Howard
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 5:18 PM
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> Subject: [aklug] viewing network addressing information
> before ifconfig?
>
> I was looking at an old (2003) embedded Red Hat system the other day.
> There was no "ifconfig" on the system (or "arp", for that
> matter). There was an "ifcfg" program, but it could only
> change settings, not display them. I tried looking through
> /proc/net directory, but I couldn't seem to find the standard
> network configuration info (or didn't know how to interpret it...)
>
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