Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION Installation Manual page 618

NOTE: ifconfig and ip
The program ifconfig is obsolete. Use ip instead.
Without arguments, ifconfig displays the status of the currently active interfaces. As
you can see in Example 30.11, "Output of the ifconfig Command" (page 600), ifconfig
has very well-arranged and detailed output. The output also contains information about
the MAC address of your device, the value of HWaddr, in the first line.
Example 30.11 Output of the ifconfig Command
eth0
lo
wlan1
For more options and information about using ifconfig, enter ifconfig -h or see
the ifconfig (8) man page.
Configuring Routing with route
route is a program for manipulating the IP routing table. You can use it to view your
routing configuration and add or remove of routes.
600 Installation and Administration
Link encap:Ethernet
inet6 addr: fe80::208:74ff:fe98:ed51/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST
RX packets:634735 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:4 frame:0
TX packets:154779 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:162531992 (155.0 Mb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec80
Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING
RX packets:8559 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8559 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:533234 (520.7 Kb)
Link encap:Ethernet
inet addr:192.168.2.4
inet6 addr: fe80::20e:2eff:fe52:3b1d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST
RX packets:50828 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:43770 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:45978185 (43.8 Mb)
HWaddr 00:08:74:98:ED:51
MTU:1500 Metric:1
TX bytes:49575995 (47.2 Mb)
Mask:255.0.0.0
MTU:16436 Metric:1
TX bytes:533234 (520.7 Kb)
HWaddr 00:0E:2E:52:3B:1D
Bcast:192.168.2.255
TX bytes:7526693 (7.1 Mb)
Mask:255.255.255.0
MTU:1500 Metric:1