> It is kinda like ipconfig. I assumed you were talking about windows until: > AFAIK, ping is a setuid binary Which unfortunately means you’ve partly helped

> It is kinda like ipconfig. I assumed you were talking about windows until: > AFAIK, ping is a setuid binary Which unfortunately means you’ve partly helped make the GP’s point for them. Under Linux, the command you’re thinking of is ifconfig, which has long been deprecated and doesn’t ship by default anymore in newer distributions. Times change, tools move on.