"Alfred M. Szmidt" <a...@gnu.org> writes: > Inetutils’ ifconfig lacks ‘up’ and ‘down’ for instance: > > $ sudo ifconfig eth0 down > ifconfig: can not resolve `down': Unknown host > > What do those commands do?
Enable/disable the interface. I notice that Solaris ifconfig also has up/down. I think it is a fairly old pattern. /Simon
