command lines?

rockin chair · 04-28-2002, 06:24 AM

I am a very new linux newbie, doing my best to evade M$ in everyway possible.
Hopefully this is the forum for this question. What is the equivalent command in Linux
for ipconfig in Dos?

Thank you very much.

dorward · 04-28-2002, 06:39 AM

ifconfig (you will probably need to be root to use it, it is usually in /sbin/ so you might find it isn't in your path and need to give the full name including directory.

rockin chair · 04-28-2002, 01:04 PM

I apologize for not being very clear in my question.

If the command is C:ipconfig/all

what would the equivalent command be for Linux? I hope that is more clearer.

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trickykid · 04-28-2002, 01:08 PM

from a prompt: ifconfig -a

or you can do individual devices.. like your first ethernet card would be eth0, you could do a ifconfig eth0 to display just the info for that.

man ifconfig for the manual pages and all available options for the command. you can also perform a man command-name on any command for all options of the command.

rockin chair · 04-28-2002, 04:43 PM

Tricky kid:

Just what I was looking for. Thank you very much.

lnxconvrt · 04-28-2002, 10:48 PM

The ifconfig -a shows some info that ipconfig/all doesn't. OTOH, it still doesn't show me (on SuSE 7.3) things like gateway, dns, dhcp, which ipconfig/all shows in Windows.

The route command, with no arguments, shows me my default gateway. Using "netstat -nr" does the same. I can "cat /etc/resolv.conf" to see the nameservers that I've set up.

I'm not sure if there's one command to show all these (ip, gateway, dns) from a linux command line.