At 19:00 +0200 1999-04-16, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
At 20:46 +0400 1999-04-16, Victor B Wagner wrote:/etc/network/eth1 IPADDR=192.168.217.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK= BROADCAST=Well, this is very similar to RH configuration. The power of Debian is using of basic commands: ifconfig eth1 192.168.217.1 .....
I like the NetBSD system, it uses files named like /etc/ifconfig.<interface>, the contents of which are the ifconfig arguments to use for setting up the interface.
However, this issue has been discussed already. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer <URL:mailto:jk@espy.org> <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org> <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:http://www.debian.org/>