Re: ifconfig

Mircea Damian (dmircea@mail.kappa.ro)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:08:25 +0300


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On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 06:15:07AM +0200, Michael L. Galbraith wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Mircea Damian wrote:
>=20
> >=20
> > It seems that 2.1.111 breaks something in ifconfig because it doesn't s=
how
> > the alias interfaces when it is invoked just as ifconfig.
> >=20
> > An ifconfig eth0:0, for example, is working ok.
> >=20
> > I'm using net-tools-1.45 and the kernel is not SMP. This is reproductib=
ile
> > on two different machines with the same kernel but totaly different
> > hardware configuration.
> >=20
> > Is this a bug or I'm missing something?
> >=20
>=20
> Hmm.. I should get around to upgrading :)
>=20
> [root]:# ifconfig --version
> net-tools 980213
> ifconfig 1.32 (1998-02-09)
>=20
> ..shows all interfaces correctly in 2.1.111 though, so I'd guess it's
> not a kernel problem but rather the tools.
>=20
> Cheers,

I think that your net-tools are older then main. Just take a look at this:

root@ecoland:~# ifconfig -V
net-tools 1.45
ifconfig 1.33 (1998-03-02)

In fact I'm using the tools that are recommended by Changes file.

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Mircea Damian
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