Hi! On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 19:33:19 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Inetutils’ ifconfig lacks ‘up’ and ‘down’ for instance: > > $ sudo ifconfig eth0 down > ifconfig: can not resolve `down': Unknown host
Exactly, these and several other compatibility options [0] are a long known (well I thought so) deficiency of inetutils ifconfig, that's why at least in Debian and derivatives it's installed as inetutils-ifconfig, to avoid breakage. The OP did not seem to be using a packaged version of inetutils though. [0] At least for the net-tools backend the up/down, add/del, tunnel, hw, multicast, promisc, dynamic, tailers, arp, outfill, allmulti and keepalive options are not implemented. It does not support specifying the address family (as in “IFACE [[AF] [ADDR]]”). It does not support IPv6. By default only prints the loopback interface, instead of all active ones. The missing -a option to list all interfaces regardles of their active state conflicts with the native -a address option. Some information is missing when printing, namely the metric, the collisions, and the transfer stats (in packets and bytes). For the other system backends there's some comments on what might be missing in system_parse_opt_rest(). > It’s very likely that Ubuntu’s boot scripts tried to use that. Yes, they surely do. regards, guillem
