Armin K. wrote:
> Every distro that I know of still ships net-tools version of it by
> default. Maybe debian offers the inetutils version, but I am not 100% sure.
My first impression is that I like the inetutils version better. I'll
add that in a bit when I update to inetutils-1.9.2. I am not
recommending the removal of net-tools from BLFS, but we will need to add
a statement that the default instructions of net-tools overwrites ifconfig.
-- Bruce
$ ifconfig --help
Usage:
ifconfig [-a] [-v] [-s] <interface> [[<AF>] <address>]
[add <address>[/<prefixlen>]]
[del <address>[/<prefixlen>]]
[[-]broadcast [<address>]] [[-]pointopoint [<address>]]
[netmask <address>] [dstaddr <address>] [tunnel <address>]
[outfill <NN>] [keepalive <NN>]
[hw <HW> <address>] [metric <NN>] [mtu <NN>]
[[-]trailers] [[-]arp] [[-]allmulti]
[multicast] [[-]promisc]
[mem_start <NN>] [io_addr <NN>] [irq <NN>] [media <type>]
[txqueuelen <NN>]
[[-]dynamic]
[up|down] ...
$ ./ifconfig --help
Usage: ifconfig [OPTION...]
NAME [ADDR] [broadcast BRDADDR] [pointopoint|dstaddr DSTADDR]
[netmask MASK] [metric N] [mtu N] [txqueuelen N] [up|down]
[FLAGS]
Configure network interfaces.
Linux-specific options
-T, --txqlen=N set transmit queue length to N
-a, --all display all available interfaces
-A, --address=ADDR set interface address to ADDR
-B, -b, --broadcast=ADDR, --brdaddr=ADDR
set broadcast address to ADDR
-d, -p, --dstaddr=ADDR, --peer=ADDR
set destination (peer) address to ADDR
--down shut the interface down
--format=FORMAT select output format; set to `help' for info
-F, --flags=FLAG[,FLAG...] set interface flags
-i, --interface=NAME configure network interface NAME
-l, --list list available or selected interfaces
-m, --netmask=MASK set netmask to MASK
--metric=N set metric of interface to N
-M, --mtu=N set mtu of interface to N
-s, --short short output format
--up activate the interface (default if address is
given)
-v, --verbose output information when configuring interface
-?, --help give this help list
--usage give a short usage message
-V, --version print program version
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or
optional
for any corresponding short options.
Known flags are: allmulti, automedia, debug, loopback, multicast, portsel,
running, trailers, up
Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
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