DSL Troubles Solved -- but not resolved...

[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

Brett I. Holcomb <mailto:bholcomb at intergate.com> typed thusly on Tuesday,
December 24, 2002 8:37 AM:

> ifconfig is your friend for working with network.
> 
> ifconfig shows stats on RUNNING interfades.  ifconfig -a shows the status
> of all network connections (whether they are running, etc.).  ifconfig
> iface shows the stats on that interface.  Use -a first because ifconfig
> only shows running interfaces.  I ran into that when my eth0 did not
>  start. ifconfig made me think it wasn't there but ifconfig -a showed it
> was stopped.

I had run ifconfig.  It showed that eth0 was up and running, had the right
IP and netmask, and I was using it to monitor the MTU that I was changing to
see if it had any effect.


In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,

Tom  :-})

Thomas A. Condon
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