Dear Ray,<br><br>If you analyze, both the commands:<br><br>ifconfig is a way to configure your IP address as the name shows, it is valid<br>/sbin/ip didnot see such situation ???? may in future.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Umair Shakil
<br>Askai Bank Limited<br>Pakistan<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ray Leventhal</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:centos@swhi.net">centos@swhi.net</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Karanbir Singh wrote:<br>&gt; Ray Leventhal wrote:<br>&gt;&gt; Hi all,<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt; I need to (quickly!grrr) update IP addresses for which a given machine<br>&gt;&gt; will answer.<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt; I did this:
<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt; /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 xx.xx.xx.10 netmask <a href="http://255.255.255.0">255.255.255.0</a><br>&gt;<br>&gt; you might want to investigate /sbin/ip - its been around for a few<br>&gt; years now, no reason why people should not be using that these days :)
<br>&gt;<br>Thanks, I shall.&nbsp;&nbsp;But as this is a production server, is there something<br>that /sbin/ip will do for me that /sbin/ifconfig was unable to?<br><br>~R<br>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS mailing list
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