On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:25:10AM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 04/26/2017 10:17 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:07:01AM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> >>"ifconfig" has to be run as root.
> >This is not correct, if you are just using it to view an interface rather
> >than to change the interface.
> And that makes me incorrect how??
Because your statement is literally untrue. You said a thing which does
not match reality.
wooledg:~$ id
uid=1000(wooledg) gid=1000(wooledg)
groups=1000(wooledg),24(cdrom),25(floppy),27(sudo),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),108(netdev)
wooledg:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 10.76.172.97 netmask 255.255.254.0 broadcast 10.76.173.255
inet6 fe80::a28c:fdff:fec3:89e0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether a0:8c:fd:c3:89:e0 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 1575652 bytes 408905635 (389.9 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 708994 bytes 65901838 (62.8 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 16 memory 0xd1000000-d1020000
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 1 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 1270503 bytes 260699031 (248.6 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 1270503 bytes 260699031 (248.6 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
