On 05/23/2012 02:17 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> On 5/22/2012 10:49 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Well, as you said, things are in transition....  And, if you did some google 
>> searches
>> you'd find that there were/are differences between how interface names 
>> appear(ed) at
>> various points depending on system architecture.  That seems to be your main 
>> "issue".
>>
>> All that aside....  If you have a system with a single interface you can 
>> always
>> do....
>>
>> [egreshko@meimei test]$ /sbin/ifconfig | grep 'inet ' | grep -v '127.0.0.1' 
>> | cut -d
>> : -f 2 | awk '{ print $1}'
>> 192.168.0.18
>>
>
> Ed:
>
> With all due respect, its become clear to me that ifconfig is obsolete and a
> solution which uses it doesn't have a future. Can you try to get the ip 
> address
> with command "ip" on a i686 and x86_64 system without having to run a 
> different
> command for each?
>

It will continue to work....  Just not support some new features.

> As for the "issue", I am still hoping someone can tell me that "ip addr show"
> giving a different device for the static IP on x86_64 and i686 is "not right" 
> so I
> can bug it with confidence that I am not making a mistake (or let me know 
> that I am
> making a mistake ... with enough info that I can confirm it is a pilot error)
>

????  The "ip" command has nothing to do with the device/interface name.

It simply lists information on all the interfaces available on the
system...regardless of if they are up/down....   There is no "right" or "wrong".

[egreshko@meimei ~]$ ip addr show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: p128p1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP 
qlen 1000
    link/ether 40:61:86:7c:2b:db brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.0.18/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global p128p1
    inet6 fe80::4261:86ff:fe7c:2bdb/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether 70:1a:04:f4:df:69 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: vboxnet0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether 0a:00:27:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

[egreshko@meimei ~]$ ip addr show dev p128p1
2: p128p1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP 
qlen 1000
    link/ether 40:61:86:7c:2b:db brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.0.18/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global p128p1
    inet6 fe80::4261:86ff:fe7c:2bdb/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever


Maybe the question you should be asking is this?

I don't like the names that have been assigned to my network interfaces.  How 
can I
change them to be what I want them to be?



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