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

From: adam bultman <adamb@glaven.org>
Date: Thu Aug 26 2010 - 10:22:36 AKDT

RH and derivatives have always had ifconfig on 'em ; embedded is a
different story, but it is probably still there.

Check to see if you have the 'ip' command; 'ip addr show' will show your
IP addresses - and in some cases, show you IP addresses that ifconfig
doesn't know about.

Christopher Howard wrote:
> 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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Adam
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