Re: Network iface is down but pingable

David Ford (david@kalifornia.com)
Sun, 10 Oct 1999 00:41:30 -0100


Drizzt wrote:

> Well, I also can create an address with ip address add ( and without alias
> support in kernel), could ping the address. Is it a correct behaviur ?. I have
> a device ( I look it with ifconfig -a ) , but the address isn't there.

ifconfig isn't capable of displaying all the information on interfaces. yes, this
is correct behavior.

ip a s will give you all the addresses on all interfaces.

-d

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