Re: [CentOS] GRabbing MAC address

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

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ip also has a one-line output mechanism:

ip -o link show

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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