Dear Ray, If you analyze, both the commands: ifconfig is a way to configure your IP address as the name shows, it is valid /sbin/ip didnot see such situation ???? may in future. Regards, Umair Shakil Askai Bank Limited Pakistan On 9/7/07, Ray Leventhal <centos at swhi.net> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070907/f594543c/attachment-0005.html>