Re: Can't ping to other ip addesss

[Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>]

Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:41:02 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
>> Sorry to break into this thread, but what package is the 'ip' command
>> in?  I tried 'apt-cache search ip network', but it returns hundreds of
>> matching packages.
>
> The package is called "iproute".

Thanks, I've got it now.

> If you want to search for utilities with generic names then it helps to
> use apt-file like this:
>
> apt-file search "bin/ip" | grep '/ip$'

I use dialup so I've never been willing to download the huge database 
for apt-file.

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Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org