On Wed, 10 Dec 2025, Rich Shepard wrote:
There is no ifconfig; I don't recall the tool Slackware uses.
Ben,
Mea culpa! I need to be root to run ifconfig or ip. Completely forgot about
that.
ifconfig -a:
# ifconfig -a
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.55.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.55.255
inet6 fe80::e9d:92ff:fe83:6e27 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 0c:9d:92:83:6e:27 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 7090101 bytes 9694748189 (9.0 GiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 31218 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 2143332 bytes 267387245 (255.0 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device memory 0xfc900000-fc91ffff
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 88395 bytes 41263177 (39.3 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 88395 bytes 41263177 (39.3 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
Rich
