Re: route command baffles me.

CptDondo <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Jay G. Scott wrote:
both physical interfaces are on the motherboard. i was hoping there
would
be a way to have eth1 omitted from ifconfig -a output, since i only have a
text console at the moment and it would save me some typing and it would
be quicker to recognize that eth0 was set up as i wanted. i guessed,
wrongly, that there would be a way to do that. there isn't. i get it.
point made.


ifconfig eth0

will dump all the info for eth0

Furthermore,

ifconfig

will dump the info for eth0 if it up and won't dump the info for eth1
if it is down.

Scott

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