There is no drawback on ifconfig. Ifconfig is used to configure the kernel-resident network interfaces. It is used at boot time to set up interfaces as necessary. After that, it is usually only needed when debugging or when system tuning is needed.
Also if you see the network service script, we are using "ifup" for "ifdown" for permanent storage. Please see "man ifconfig" for different uses of "ifconfig" command.
Thank you.
Gaurang Shastri
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Vivek Subbarao <viveks@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
The ip address assigned through ifconfig is not persistent. Why is the behaviour so? Instead of editing files to add persistent addresses why not make ifconfig add persistent addresses? Is there a drawback to this?
Thank you,
Vivek S
