Kenneth Schneider wrote: > On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 20:34 +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote: >> Hi Robert, >> >> we will help you to get along. Don't despair >> > <snip> >>>> Congratulations!!! >>>> It's easy, isn't it? >>> No. Kenneth on this list learned me about the command ip a which is not >>> mentioned in O'Reilly's Nutshell or the SuSE manual. Ch 21, Basic >>> Networking in the Reference documentation should include info about how >>> to find unknown IP addresses of computers in a LAN. >> well, Kenneth's command works but I think, the more usual command for >> this is: >> /sbin/ifconfig > > This command is being replaced by the ip command which is why I > suggested it instead. No sense teaching about commands that are not > going to be with us much longer. > agreed. But, rarely, I see sense in telling (not teaching!) beginners commands that they will find in the books and can read up.
Later on, a "man ip" or shorter "ip --help" will be easy to understand for them. regards E -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
