Re: No ifconfig [Was: no /etc/inittab]
On Tuesday 15 August 2017 14:00:50 Brian wrote:
> On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 13:46:20 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 13:07:38 David Wright wrote:
> > > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 11:23:41 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 07:33:53 Nicolas George wrote:
> > > > > L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Erik Christiansen a écrit :
> > > > > > If it's no longer part of the base system, then perhaps the
> > > > > > system is too base?
> > > > >
> > > > > Please ellaborate. Why should ifconfig be part of the base
> > > > > system?
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Because ip is a pain in the ass to make it run, and still gives
> > > > grossly incomplete information?
> > > >
> > > > In 2 years, I have yet to get a full network report out of ip
> > > > such as ifconfig gives.
> > >
> > > Does ip addr ; ip -s link not work for you?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > David.
> >
> > It could I suppose, but thats also an extra 4" of useless fluff on
> > my high res screen.
>
> You really wanted to say "yes" to your problem of two years standing
> being solved, didn't you? But it goes against the grain. :)
I would not go out on that limb and saw it off behind me, but if it had
more labels on the output, it could be helpfull. For instance what does
this line in its output for eth0 tell me, and where did it get those
numbers?
inet6 fe80::21f:c6ff:fe62:fcbb/64 scope link
Compared to the ifconfig eth0 output, that looks to be derived from its
MAC address, but how is such a determination thats its a globally unique
address determined? Anyone can cause a MAC address to be spoofed. I am
doing it myself so that I can change routers without loseing my ipv4
address, registered at namecheap.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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