On Friday, August 24, 2001, at 08:19 AM, Craig S. Cottingham wrote:
> On Thursday, August 23, 2001, at 09:55 , Bruce Van Allen wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info. So I can explore this further, I assume since
>> it's used here on the command line, that this is a UNIX construct,
>> independent of OS X (and also Perl), yes?
>
> Independent of Perl, yes. Of OS X, not necessarily. I think it may be a
> BSD thing; neither of my two Linux boxes have an executable named
> ipconfig.
ipconfig is an OS X thing. It's a CLI client for configd, which is the
system service responsible for configuring system networking; it
automatically reconfigures the network when you come within range of an
AirPort base station, unplug/plug in an ethernet cable, etc. That
includes IP addresses, routes, and NetInfo binding, if applicable.
-Fred
