[PLUG] ifconfig

[Daniel Pittman]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 07:36, Sean Whitney <sean.whitney at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been working with some virtualization technologies and I keep
> seeing commands like
>
> ifconfig eth0 0
>
> I'm wondering what the 0 does?  Google isn't very helpful, nor is the
> man page.

Gives the IP address 0 to the interface; you can extend that to the
full 32 bits as 0.0.0.0

This is likely to be used as part of bringing up the interface as part
of a software bridge, to which later the virtual machines will also be
attached.

Regards,
    Daniel
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