Inetutils and ifconfig

2010-01-27 Thread Johnneylee Rollins
Hey, is it possible to use ifconfig to configure my network interfaces? If I can, do I just leave off --disable-ifconfig in the configure step? If this isn't the best decision, I would love to know why. I'm rather curious. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

Re: Inetutils and ifconfig

2010-01-27 Thread stosss
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Johnneylee Rollins johnneylee.roll...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, is it possible to use ifconfig to configure my network interfaces? If I can, do I just leave off --disable-ifconfig in the configure step? If this isn't the best decision, I would love to know why. I'm

Re: Inetutils and ifconfig

2010-01-27 Thread Johnneylee Rollins
snip  --disable-ifconfig    This option prevents Inetutils from installing the ifconfig program, which can be used to configure network interfaces. LFS uses ip from IPRoute2 to perform this task. They are doing this to eliminate duplicate tools. ifconfig and IPRoute2 work side by side

Re: Inetutils and ifconfig

2010-01-27 Thread Johnneylee Rollins
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:06 AM, stosss sto...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Johnneylee Rollins johnneylee.roll...@gmail.com wrote: snip  --disable-ifconfig    This option prevents Inetutils from installing the ifconfig program, which can be used to configure network

Re: ifconfig

2008-11-07 Thread wwh04660
On Nov 6, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Adam Roach wrote: Ralph Porter wrote: Was ifconfig suppose to be installed someplace? If so in what step as I do not have it on my new system. /sbin has ifcfg is this a mini-version thanks rp net-tools for ifconfig We have had a hint about IPRoute2

ifconfig

2008-11-06 Thread Ralph Porter
Was ifconfig suppose to be installed someplace? If so in what step as I do not have it on my new system. /sbin has ifcfg is this a mini-version thanks rp -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

Re: ifconfig

2008-11-06 Thread DJ Lucas
Ralph Porter wrote: Was ifconfig suppose to be installed someplace? If so in what step as I do not have it on my new system. No, LFS uses IPRoute2 by default. It is a much better tool, however you can add net-tools from BLFS if you absolutely cannot bring yourself to use /sbin/ip

lfs: ifconfig

2005-10-28 Thread Howard Wang
Hi, I have installed lfs 6.1 on my embedded system and it boots ok. I have several questions: 1. it seems that there is no ifconfig command, so what is the equivalent for that ? 2. before I log in, it prompts me with lfs login, however, after login, the name does not show anymore, instead

RE: ifconfig

2005-10-28 Thread Daryn Neadow
Hi, I have installed lfs 6.1 on my embedded system and it boots ok. I have several questions: 1. it seems that there is no ifconfig command, so what is the equivalent for that ? You can use ip in place of ifconfig or install net-tools from blfs to get ifconfig if you want it. 2. before I

Re: ifconfig, route, etc

2005-03-31 Thread Andrei A. Voropaev
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:56:30PM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: Christopher Fowler wrote: I have finished my LFS installation and I do not seem to have ifconfig, route, and friends. Did I forget to install a package? Thanks, Chris Net-tools-1.60 is in the Beyond LFS book But in LFS

Re: no ifconfig

2005-03-18 Thread Jim Gifford
Karna Puri-Sengupta wrote: Hello all, i finished building LFS yesterday and everything worked fine. Apart from ifconfig. How come? Actually i searched thru Freshmeat and found the binaries from net-tools, which also included ifconfig. I extracted it into a folder and configured it: But during

Re: no ifconfig

2005-03-18 Thread Andrei A. Voropaev
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:34:19AM +0100, Karna Puri-Sengupta wrote: Hey jim, thanxs for the quick answer. When i used ifconfig the syntax was as following: ifconfig eth0 ip.ad.dr.ess netmask ne.t.mas.sk up How do i use ip add ? When i type : ip addr add 10.0.2.88 eth0