'ifconfig' and 'route' are good commands to know because they are common to most Unix or POSIX environments and common to all Linux distributions. If you get stuck, you can (as Mark suggested) use those two commands to restore connectivity and then sign on with a more Unix friendly tool (eg: PuTTY) and then launch vendor-specific or distributor-specific tools (eg: YaST). 'ifconfig' and 'route' are in fact the underpinnings of the start-up infrastructure shipped by the distributors.
The difficulty of using a (virtual) 3215 console to work on mainframe Linux is not at all unlike the difficulty of using a serial line into a hand-held (eg: ARM) Linux system. Other platforms (SPARC, Alpha, PowerPC) present their own difficulties in a crisis. -- R, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
