Ipconfig for Linux

[gazwsx]

What is the the equivalent ipconfig command in linux operating systems ?

[darshit]

Linux operating systems have a similar kind of utility called ifconfig, which is a common tool in linux. There are some differences between ipconfig and ifconfig command, however, such as the fact that the DOS/Windows ipconfig does not allow you to make changes to network configuration.

[Raiz]

Refer to this thread first : How to define an IP address on Linux

ifconfig (short for interface configurator) is a system administration utility in Unix-like operating systems to configure, control, and query TCP/IP network interface parameters from a command line interface (CLI) or in system configuration scripts. ifconfig originally appeared in 4.2BSD as part of the BSD TCP/IP suite.

More here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifconfig

Hope this helps.

[linux.]

The alternative to ipconfig is ifconfig. But the netstat command is also present on linux system as present in windows. netstat in Linux that shows all open ports on your system.

To restart the network services

# ifconfig -a
# ifconfig  eth0 plumb
# ifconfig eth0 down
# ifconfig eth0 up