On 04/26/2017 08:36 AM, Brian wrote:
On Wed 26 Apr 2017 at 07:17:11 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 04/25/2017 08:17 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 04/24/2017 04:12 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 24/04/17 22:58, Richard Owlett wrote:
If there were user accessible registers with a running total of
uploaded/downloaded data since device power on would be almost ideal
granularity.
Is ifconfig available on a console during installation?
I can not check at the moment.
I attempted to check this morning using
debian-stretch-DI-rc3-i386-netinst.iso
I did an install using expert mode, not selecting any GUI.
At several points during the install I did Alt-F2 to bring up a terminal to
attempt running ifconfig.
"Command not found" was the uniform response.
I booted the new install and attempted as root to run ifconfig.
I again got "Command not found".
That seemed odd.
Having previously done an install using the same ISO and having selected the
MATE desktop, I repeated the above with the same error.
I have no problem running ifconfig under Squeeze (8.6.0).
Is it "bug" or "operator error"?
Let us see how a reasonably experienced user could have investigated the
cause. The package which provides ifconfig can be found from 'dpkg -S'
on a machine which has it. Or from the packages page on the Debian web
site,
The ISO can be opened up (I use mc) and the /pool/main directory entered.
Go to "n". See it? No? Not a bug, then.
"ifconfig" has to be run as root.
ric@iam:~$ sudo ifconfig
[sudo] password for ric:
enp8s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255
inet6 fe80::16da:e9ff:fe09:4706 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 14:da:e9:09:47:06 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 6879 bytes 3709031 (3.7 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 6276 bytes 596404 (596.4 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 35 base 0x9000
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 88693 bytes 15355517 (15.3 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 88693 bytes 15355517 (15.3 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
ric@iam:~$
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