#1 2018-05-02 00:51:10

jjanderson5

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[RESOLVED] BL - Helium - has 'ifconfig' been deprecated?

I started my first install of the Helium release and I'm running into some problems. The first problem is that I'm trying to find the IP address of the PC on which the installation is being made. In the past, I have always used 'ifconfig'. When I look in /sbin, ifconfig is not there.

Has it been deprecated? If so, what is the recommended method to find the intranet IP address of the PC?

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Re: [RESOLVED] BL - Helium - has 'ifconfig' been deprecated?

To find your machine's IP:

ip addr

This will display status of all interfaces on your system.  The old ifconfig tools (in net-tools package) are considered deprecated in favor of the iproute2 package which has the ip command for managing the network interfaces. If you prefer using the old ifconfig just install the net-tools package which is available in stretch:

~$ sudo apt install net-tools

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lowrider

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Re: [RESOLVED] BL - Helium - has 'ifconfig' been deprecated?

To find your machine's IP:

ip addr

or in short

ip a

Last edited by lowrider (2018-05-02 02:26:46)

DeepDayze

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Re: [RESOLVED] BL - Helium - has 'ifconfig' been deprecated?

To find your machine's IP:

ip addr

or in short

ip a

Ahh thanks for that little gem.

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jjanderson5

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Re: [RESOLVED] BL - Helium - has 'ifconfig' been deprecated?

@DeepDayze

Well, that is about the best answer I have ever received in the forums. Informative, concise and right on the mark. Thank you, much for the explanation.

Jim A.

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Re: [RESOLVED] BL - Helium - has 'ifconfig' been deprecated?

This is covered in the upstream Debian stretch release notes:

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ … l#iproute2

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