Re: ip address
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 19:25:45 -0500
David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> Quoting John J. Boyer (john.boyer@abilitiessoft.org):
> > Thanks for all of your answers. The problem was that ifconfig is in sbin
> > not bin.
>
> I think you're better off forgetting about ifconfig and using ip in
> its place; that's the direction things are heading. From Packages:
>
> Package: iproute2
> ...
> Description: networking and traffic control tools
> The iproute2 suite is a collection of utilities for networking and
> traffic control.
> .
> These tools communicate with the Linux kernel via the (rt)netlink
> interface, providing advanced features not available through the
> legacy net-tools commands 'ifconfig' and 'route'.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>
the output of ip is a bit of a mess.
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
what the hell ? i have no idea what tha means. i know i'll do man ip, it's probably
got an explanation. no. it doesn't.
ifconfig output is much easier to look at. too bad that it's defaulted to /sbin because
it would definitely be easier for a noobie to understand.
but that's just my, uh, opinion, man...
Brian
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