[CentOS] GRabbing MAC address

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, John R Pierce wrote:

>> ip also has a one-line output mechanism:
>>
>>     ip -o link show
> ...
>
> I do wish the mothership would update its standard network configuration 
> scripts to use ip(8) rather than the legacy ifconfig(8).  Rather than using 
> the legacy eth0:1 style interface aliases,  allow a single 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to contain a list of aliases which 
> get set with
>
>   ip addr add ......
>
> ditto optional static routes could be set with
>
>   ip route add ...

The great mothership fulfilled your wishes retrospectively if you use 
route-eth0 to set your routes :) Eg.

 	1.2.3.4 via 4.3.2.1
 	8.4.2.0/24 via 7.5.3.1

would be the same as:

 	route add -host 1.2.3.4 gw 4.3.2.1
 	route add -net 8.4.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 7.5.3.1

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