On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 22:59:10 +0200
aitor <aitor_czr@???> wrote:

> Hi Manfred,
>
> On 6/8/23 21:14, Manfred Wassmann via Dng wrote:
> > Why? Interfaces don't need not be up to be able to get information. Try
> > # ifconfig eth0 down
> > # ifconfig eth0
> > and
> > # ip -a link show
>
> Yes, you're write. And I was wrong.
>
> Although `ifconfig` no longer exists in daedalus and `iproute` shows nothing,
> `ip link` does show the required info. Now I can't remember which commands
> failed for me trying to solve time ago the delay caused by ifupdown.

Hi,
it is in bookworm should be in Deadalus:

bookworm (stable) (net): NET-3 networking toolkit

File list of package net-tools in bookworm of architecture amd64

/bin/netstat
/sbin/ifconfig
/sbin/ipmaddr
/sbin/iptunnel
/sbin/mii-tool
/sbin/nameif
/sbin/plipconfig
/sbin/rarp
/sbin/route
/sbin/slattach
/usr/sbin/arp

Ciao,
Tito

> At this point, it comes to my mind another posix function:
>
> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/if_nameindex.3.html
>
> that I'm using in simple-netaid to get the names of the network devices (line 57):
>
> https://git.devuan.org/aitor_czr/libnetaid/src/branch/master/interfaces.c
>
> in order to find additional information (i.e, wired/wireless) in the sysfs afterward.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Aitor.
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