sbin/mii-tool (ethtool should appropriately replace it) bin/netstat (replaced by ss, for which I’ll dedicate another blog post entirely) I want to know about your world Are you still using one of the following tools?

It may be time to revisit not installing net-tools by default anywhere. We’ve already stopped installing ifconfig on desktops (it still gets installed on servers for now), and people have been discussing dropping net-tools (the package that ships ifconfig and a few other old commands that are replaced) for a while now. Why is this important?Īs time passes, more and more features are becoming easier to use with the ip command instead of with ifconfig.

I’ll cover another: ip route, in another post.

To be precise, it will show you the layer 3 details the interface: the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, whether it is up, what are the different properties related to the addresses…Īnother command will give you details about the layer 2 properties of the interface: its MAC address (ethernet address), etc even if it is shown by ip address: ip link showįurthermore, you can set devices up or down (similar to ifconfig eth0 up or ifconfig eth0 down) simply by using: ip link set DEVICE up or ip link set DEVICE downĪs shown above, there are lots of other objects that can be interacted with using the ip command. It will just display the IP addresses assigned to all interfaces. This is the main command that would be used in place of ifconfig. I understand this may look complicated to some people, but the jist of it is to understand that with ip, you interact with objects, and apply some kind of function to it.

Linux get mac address without ifconfig