On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Bharathi Subramanian < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 9:11am, Suresh Kumar Subramanian wrote: > > > How "ip address" command differs from ifconfig command. > > Most of the commands are just a interface to the Kernel API. > ifconfig provides less interfaces and ip provides more. > In many cases, fine grained interfaces are necessary. One good example is where we want to bring only a link down. ifconfig can only bring an interface down which means IP address flush and link down. ip command can preserve the addresses and just bring the link down. -- Mohan Sundaram _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
