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

From: Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Aug 26 2010 - 16:53:49 AKDT

/sbin/ifconfig ?

I only ask the obvious because at one time, at least on RedHat, ifconfig
(and other items) was not in the user's path.

I notice that at some point, at least on Fedora, it did wind up in the
user's path.

-- 
Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 17:18 -0800, 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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