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Re: ifconfig link documentation ?



On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:44:11PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> > It's think "link" that I'm interested with (especially what would be the
> > difference between "link" and "address" in the ifconfig output).
> > I found no documentation about it so far ...
> 
> The 'address:' line tells the "active" link-layer address, that is,
> the one that is the default link-layer source address for transmissions.
> The 'link' lines tell all of the inactive link-layer addresses.
> 
> I have updated the ifconfig(8) manual page both with this information
> and with examples.  Let me know how I can improve it.

Looks good, at last I've now the informations I was looking for.
Thanks !

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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