On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:11:08PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote
> Peter Humphrey writes:
>
> > On Thursday 19 April 2012 20:56:59 Michael Mol wrote:
> >
> > > The 'ip' command is far and away a nicer tool than ifconfig, once you
> > > get a handle on it.
> >
> > Which package is it in?
>
> sys-apps/iproute2
It's also a built-in for busybox, which is part of the system package.
On my machine...
waltdnes@d531 ~ $ busybox ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1454 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
link/ether 00:1d:09:96:6c:1c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
waltdnes@d531 ~ $ busybox ip addr show dev eth0
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1454 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
link/ether 00:1d:09:96:6c:1c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.123.251/29 brd 192.168.123.255 scope global eth0
inet 169.254.1.4/16 brd 169.254.255.255 scope global eth0:1
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Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
