Re: ifconfig

[David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>]

john gennard <joney@clara.co.uk> writes:
> Etherconf puts the configurations into /etc/network/interfaces, but 
> I don't see where ifconfig puts them.

ifconfig stores the configuration in the kernel's memory.  :-)  It's
the low-level tool that is ultimately run by ifup and ifdown.

> Can anyone enlighten me on this? Also, could I create 
> /etc/network/interfaces by hand in an editor as a third alternative.

Sure; the format is very straightforward (see interfaces(5)).  This is
what I generally do to configure the network on my Debian machines.

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