RH equivalent to winipcfg?

[Eric Whitcombe]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Kinz" <jkinz at kinz.org>
To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: RH equivalent to winipcfg?


> On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 11:17:29AM -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> > Is there an equivalent to winipcfg (or whatever it's called) for RH8 and
> > RH9? I'd like to (easily) see what DHCP has assigned to this machine.
I'm
> > sure it's buried in the docs somewhere, but I don't know where.
>
> You're in a gui state of mind.
>
> This is linux.
> There is no native linux command that does what you want.
>

Actually winipcfig is a command-line utility that gives you a quick
read-only output
of your network settings including IP address.

And ifconfig on linux will give you essentially the same info.
RedHat 9

>
> You can cheat and use the distro specififc "redhat-config-network"
> command.  This will give you a point and click gooeey program
> that you can browse to find the info you want, except for the mac
> address.
>
> You must be root to invoke this from the command line.
>
> This won't help you on any other distro.
>
> What you really want to do is develop an uinderstanding of what commands
> and files like ifconfig, /etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf, and etc... yada
> yada do on UNIX and UNIX-like systems.
>
> Oh yeah - don't mix the use of the gui tool and the direct editing of
> the system config files.  Use only one or the other.
>
> (Disclaimer - the above info only valid thru RH 7.2, after that anything
> could be happening, but is likely to be similar).
>
>
>
>
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