On 25.08.2009 09:37, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 13:02 +0530, Partha Chowdhury 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 ? >> > > ifup and ifdown are debian specific commands not found in other > distributions. > > > That's right. The way to do it on Arch is ifconfig eth0 up and ifconfig eth0 down.