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Where Debian Lenny stores initial ifconfig values?

With upgrade of VMWare Player I suddenly found my Debian Lenny VM not getting IP address. Some DHCP issue maybe, I don't know. So I have to set it manually every boot in Player window, via: ifconfig …
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Routing data through VPN in linux

I think its a silly question but still here it goes.. Terminal Output: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:c0:37:5e:25 inet addr:10.100.98.51 Bcast:10.100.98.255 …
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configuring network interfaces on redhat linux

I'm trying to configure the ip address, broadcast and subnet mask of a series of interfaces. However, I'd like to configure the IP Address independent of the broadcast address and vice versa. In other …
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What does ifconfig promisc mode do, or promiscuous mode in general?

This is what man ifconfig has to say about it. [-]promisc Enable or disable the promiscuous mode of the interface. If selected, all packets on the network will be received by the …
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Network Configuration

Hello, This is my situation: Router A: IP 192.168.1.1 Mask 192.168.1.0/24 - Connected to the internet. Server: - Interface eth0: inet addr:10.1.1.125 Mask:255.255.255.0 (connected to router B) …
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BASH script that tests for IP

Is there an elegant way to test an IP address in a BASH script? I could do ifconfig and narrow down the IP using sed/awk, but I think there is a simpler solution. My application is basically using …
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Can’t get an IP address

Hi all. I'm running Ubuntu 9.04. I have an onboard network card. The computer usually boots perfectly, but today, I don't have an IP address. The light is on, on the network card as well as the …
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How can I reset the statistics reported by ifconfig ?

I'm trying to trace a possible link problem on one of our servers' ethernet interfaces. ifconfig reports a large number of error packets. I've asked the hosting company to make some changes to the …
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ifconfig dirties inode on proc (Linux)

I'm currently checking HD access with the following echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump tail -f /tmp/syslog and this log message pops up once in a while: Aug 31 22:44:18 Frasse kernel: [ …
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Correct way of bringing network interface down in linux

For example: $ ifconfig dummy0 up $ ifconfig dummy0 "192.168.1.190 netmask 255.255.255.0" Calling ifconfig with no parameters shows the interface dummy0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr …
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How to list all the ip addresses of a server

When I type ifconfig, I see that my server has an new ip address each day. The ip addresses belong to a set of ip addresses. How do I find out all the ip addresses of my server?