On Aug 14, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Richard Troth wrote:
'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.
"ip" is even better. I think ifconfig and route are usually built on top of it these days. It's a very, very smart tool. Look for the "iproute" or "iproute2" package. Its capabilities are a strict superset of ifconfig and route's. That said, I still use ifconfig and route myself because old habits are hard to break. But if you're leaning a new tool anyway, learn "ip". Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
