Re: [bug-inetutils] Re: GNU inetutils 1.7 breaks Ubuntu GNU/Linux boot

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Alfred,

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

>    Inetutils’ ifconfig lacks ‘up’ and ‘down’ for instance:
>
>      $ sudo ifconfig eth0 down
>      ifconfig: can not resolve `down': Unknown host
>
> What do those commands do?

With Nettools’ ifconfig (and other implementations) they bring the
specified interface up or down, which is quite useful.  ;-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.