Man Page or somewhere else?

andrew44 · 12-30-2013, 10:58 PM

I know I can add an ip address like /sbin/ifconfig eth0 10.0.1.1/24

but that isn't permanent.

I want to see all the options available for network scripts for examples the options I could put in ifcfg-eth0

Something like

https://access.redhat.com/site/docum...nterfaces.html

but man ifcfg doesn't seem to show me more than 3 options. Is there somewhere else I should be looking?

Thanks,

A

towheedm · 12-31-2013, 12:01 AM

Did you try searching the net? A quick search of 'man ifcfg' produced 310,000 hits.

Try this.

andrew44 · 12-31-2013, 11:04 AM

Thanks for the reply.

I should have made myself clearer. I want to find that information without having to use the internet or anything that is not found outside of the local machine.

On a redhat machine if I type "man ifcfg" I get

http://pastebin.com/etpUtf5Q

Not very useful but I assume somewhere in there

there must be something closer to http://www.linuxcertif.com/man/5/ifcfg/

Any ideas?

towheedm · 12-31-2013, 12:26 PM

It's up to the author of the man page to include as much information as they see fit.

I'm on Debian and there is no ifcfg command. After checking a few other distros, I only found the man pages on Fedora (RedHat) and Slackware.

But the first line does say that it briefly documents the command and it continues with

Quote:

This is a simplistic script replacing one option of ifconfig

Probably some of the other network man pages may help, try:

Code:

man ip

Or even try the ip-cref.dvi pages.