[Balug-talk] ifconfig

[Keith Keller]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 03:39:44PM -0700, Ivan F. Poddubny wrote:
> 
> First, are you executing this command as root? If not -- bad for you, it
> won't work. 
> 
> The location is /sbin/ifconfig

ifconfig does work as a normal user just to display information about
network interfaces.  It's quite helpful if, say, you need to find out
the MAC address of a machine.

--keith

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