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IP - the ifconfig replacement



Anyone who has used Linux will likely be familiar with the ifconfig command. Apparently ifconfig was deprecated some time ago, but has still been included in CentOS and Red Hat. Well version 7 has finally left out ifconfig and so now we move on to it's replacement called ip

Basic IP Commands


  ip a


This command will list all interfaces with their associated information.

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether b8:27:eb:25:73:7d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.1.7/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::9c01:198b:dfcf:da93/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether b8:27:eb:70:26:28 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

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