On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:02:47 +0530 Partha Chowdhury <kira.laucas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > i cannot find ifup and ifdown in any of the paths- not as a normal > user nor as root user. only command i can use is ifconfig. so i was > wondering which package provides these two binaries ? As has been said, there are no binaries for those. IIRC they are scripts that use ifconfig. See `man ifconfig`