Karanbir Singh wrote: > Ray Leventhal wrote: >>>> /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? > > Make life a lot easier and a lot more functional ? > I concur, with the caveat that AFAIK, the RHEL standard networking scripts still do things the old way with ifconfig.