On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 07:17:11AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 04/25/2017 08:17 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:On 04/24/2017 04:12 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:On 24/04/17 22:58, Richard Owlett wrote:If there were user accessible registers with a running total of uploaded/downloaded data since device power on would be almost ideal granularity.Is ifconfig available on a console during installation?I can not check at the moment.I attempted to check this morning using debian-stretch-DI-rc3-i386-netinst.iso I did an install using expert mode, not selecting any GUI.At several points during the install I did Alt-F2 to bring up a terminal to attempt running ifconfig."Command not found" was the uniform response. I booted the new install and attempted as root to run ifconfig. I again got "Command not found". That seemed odd.Having previously done an install using the same ISO and having selected the MATE desktop, I repeated the above with the same error.I have no problem running ifconfig under Squeeze (8.6.0). Is it "bug" or "operator error"?
"ifconfig" was part of the "net-tools" package. Recently, though, this has been deprecated in favour of the "iproute2" package. The main difference is that "ifconfig", "route" and a few other tools are now replaced by a single "ip" command. The interface to "ip", however, is completely different. For interface statistics from ip, try "ip -s link [interface]". -- For more information, please reread.
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