Karanbir Singh wrote: > Ray Leventhal wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I need to (quickly!grrr) update IP addresses for which a given machine >> will answer. >> >> I did this: >> >> /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 xx.xx.xx.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > you might want to investigate /sbin/ip - its been around for a few > years now, no reason why people should not be using that these days :) > Thanks, I shall. But as this is a production server, is there something that /sbin/ip will do for me that /sbin/ifconfig was unable to? ~R