ifconfig

i studying for the exam using fedora 2 on my lap and fedora 3 on my desktop. I remember from the network + that ifconfig should display all the ip/dns etc. when i type ifconfig it says
command noit found. anyone know why?

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TeKniques

That's weird, I'm assuming your opening a terminal from the GUI and entering the command?

Did you setup your network configs during install? If I remember correctly even if your NIC isn't recognized you should still get some sort of reading from ifconfig

jasonandashley1

yes. Im set up the network. I'm conected to the internet right now.

jasonandashley1

well, i kind of got it to work. Logged in to root, cd to /sbin and did a ./ifconifg

does this mean there is a link broken somewhere and therefore "ifconifg" wont work by just typing "ifconfig" in / ?

drewm320

No, it means that /sbin is not in your PATH (which is sort of odd). Type:

echo $PATH

This will show all the directories that Linux will search in for a program if you do not specify the complete path. To add directories to your PATH, go to your user's home directory (i.e /root) and edit the .bash_profile file. There will be a line like this:

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

Just add directories as needed separated by colons:

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/sbin

Then log out and back in or start a new xterm to make the change take effect.

lordy

/sbin contains system binaries which are supposed to be used by root therefore /sbin is not in the user's default $PATH.

You can either modify your path to include /sbin or simply call /sbin/ifconfig.

darkuser

do a
locate ifconfig

[kurt@netsys70 kurt]$ locate ifconfig
/usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/usr/share/man/de_DE/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/usr/share/man/fr_FR/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/usr/share/man/pt_BR/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/arch/ia64/sn/io/ifconfig_net.c
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/include/asm-ia64/sn/ifconfig_net.h
/sbin/ifconfig
[kurt@netsys70 kurt]$

[kurt@netsys70 kurt]$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:B0:D0:44:81:24
inet addr:172.16.3.70 Bcast:172.16.3.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3502339 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:48870 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:240493675 (229.3 Mb) TX bytes:22572137 (21.5 Mb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xec80

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:9797293 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9797293 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:668960916 (637.9 Mb) TX bytes:668960916 (637.9 Mb)

[kurt@netsys70 kurt]$

mctoffer

you can also check your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts for the ip address of your ethernet card

rossonieri#1

mctoffer wrote:

you can also check your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts for the ip address of your ethernet card

and you can type all the gateway, ip addr etc manually.