Kenneth Schneider wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 20:34 +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> we will help you to get along. Don't despair
>>
> <snip>
>>>> Congratulations!!!
>>>> It's easy, isn't it?
>>> No. Kenneth on this list learned me about the command ip a which is not  
>>> mentioned in O'Reilly's Nutshell or the SuSE manual. Ch 21, Basic 
>>> Networking in the Reference documentation should include info about how 
>>> to find unknown IP addresses of computers in a LAN.
>> well, Kenneth's command works but I think, the more usual command for
>> this is:
>> /sbin/ifconfig
> 
> This command is being replaced by the ip command which is why I
> suggested it instead. No sense teaching about commands that are not
> going to be with us much longer.


The ifconfig command will always be with us, it's a unix standard.

IIRC on suse, ifconfig is just a wrapper around ip anyway.

Joe
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