Hi, On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:37:40AM +1000, Joel Pearson wrote: > Thanks for this. Is "ip l s dev eth1 up" the equivalent of ifconfig > eth1 up? Right. It's short for ip link set dev eth1 up. ip and tc are the prefered tools for controlling the Linux networking stack, they allow finer and more complete control of the many parameters available. For basic use ifconfig and route will still work, but I don't know when they will stop being commonplace. //Peter
