Hello Vivek,
There is no drawback on ifconfig. Ifconfig is used to configure the
kernel-resident network interfaces. It is used at boot time to set up
interfaces as necessary. After that, it is usually only needed when
debugging or when system tuning is needed.
Also if you see the network
Please check, whether you have dhcp client running or not.
dhcp will assign ips automatically. If so, disable dhcp.
Shammi
From: Vivek Subbarao viv...@chelsio.com
To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 1:40:48 PM
Subject: Ip address assignment
Hi,
The ip
Hi,
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 01:10:48 -0700, Vivek Subbarao viv...@chelsio.com
wrote:
Hi,
The ip address assigned through ifconfig is not persistent. Why is the
behaviour so? Instead of editing files to add persistent addresses why
not make ifconfig add persistent addresses? Is there a
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bou...@nl.linux.org] On Behalf Of micro...@virginbroadband.com.au
Sent: 08 September 2009 15:35
To: Kernelnewbies
Subject: Re: Ip address assignment
Hi,
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 01:10:48 -0700, Vivek Subbarao
viv...@chelsio.com
wrote:
Hi,
The ip address assigned
On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 01:10 -0700, Vivek Subbarao wrote:
[...]
The ip address assigned through ifconfig is not persistent. Why is the
behaviour so? Instead of editing files to add persistent addresses why
not make ifconfig add persistent addresses? Is there a drawback to
this?
- It's not the
Thanks for the explanation. I understood your point.
-Original Message-
From: Bernd Petrovitsch [mailto:be...@firmix.at]
Sent: 08 September 2009 16:38
To: Vivek Subbarao
Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: Ip address assignment
On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 01:10 -0700, Vivek
