> Inetutils’ ifconfig lacks ‘up’ and ‘down’ for instance: > > $ sudo ifconfig eth0 down > ifconfig: can not resolve `down': Unknown host > > What do those commands do?
Enable/disable the interface. I notice that Solaris ifconfig also has up/down. I think it is a fairly old pattern. Does up/down set all the values (IP, GW, netmask, etc) to 0, or does it do something else?
