Brett I. Holcomb <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed thusly on Tuesday, December 24, 2002 8:37 AM:
> ifconfig is your friend for working with network. > > ifconfig shows stats on RUNNING interfades. ifconfig -a shows the status > of all network connections (whether they are running, etc.). ifconfig > iface shows the stats on that interface. Use -a first because ifconfig > only shows running interfaces. I ran into that when my eth0 did not > start. ifconfig made me think it wasn't there but ifconfig -a showed it > was stopped. I had run ifconfig. It showed that eth0 was up and running, had the right IP and netmask, and I was using it to monitor the MTU that I was changing to see if it had any effect. In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) Thomas A. Condon Barbershop Bass Singer Registered Linux User #154358 A Jester Unemployed _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
