Re: How to know the name of an ethernet interface.

["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net>]

In <[🔎] 4AAEDFDD.1030702@cantv.net>, Juan Lavieri wrote:
>But about the ifconfig -a command;   it only reports the interfaces
>configured in the /etc/X11/interfaces file,

Nope.  ifconfig -a lists all devices active in the kernel.  The "-a" stands 
for "all" (as opposed to just the configured ones, which is the output of 
ifconfig without -a).

Also, /etc/X11/interfaces shouldn't exist or have anything to do with you 
networking.  On Debian, the main file for network configuration is 
/etc/network/interfaces.
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