Comments on: ifconfig vs ip: What’s Difference and Comparing Network Configuration

By: Nerd

Nerd — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:01:31 +0000

Command "ip a" provides netmask information in a bitcount format after the ip address.

By: dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 18:04:42 +0000

The trend in Linux lately has been to move from simple, do one thing well apps to complex, do as much as possible apps. Just take a look at GRUB v. GRUB2

By: Den

Den — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 02:31:33 +0000

In reply to fatboy92.

Great point. Many other commands (at least in Gnome) use the get/set pair of commands.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:28:06 +0000

I just updated Ubuntu from 16.04 to 18.04, and I found out that ifconfig is gone, and replaced by ip. Thank you for the article!! However, I think ifconfig was (is) better because the syntax was simpler. As your examples show, there are many more words necessary to achieve the same command with "ip". More words = more possibilities for messing up, more syntax to remember. Maybe someone could write a wrapper that takes ifconfig syntax and transparently translates it to "ip" syntax ... ??

By: manju

manju — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 08:22:13 +0000

How to collect the netmask information. ifconfig gives us 255.255.255.0, but IP command not providing any data. How to retrieve it?