[Wylug-help] Where are ifconfig, route etc under FC4?

John Hodrien johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk
Sat Aug 13 12:18:02 BST 2005


On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Dave Fisher wrote:

>> The official way to fiddle with networky stuff on RH (since around RH7)
>> has been the ip command - from the iproute2 package, also found in /sbin
>
> Thanks, that's essentially what I wanted to know.
>
> I'd only looked for route and ifconfig first, because they tend to be
> the cross-distro lowest common denominators.

Having used RH for far to many years, I've never used ip...  I've never
progressed past vi and /etc/sysconfig/network*

The wonderful thing about official ways of doing things is that you can ignore
them if you like ;)

jh

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