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Re:OpenBSD: Why and How (2016) by mprovost on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @04:40AM (#21522435)
These are two pretty complex manpages for setting up network interfaces:

http://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8

https://linux.die.net/man/8/ip

The Linux one doesn't have an example anywhere of how to assign an IP address to an interface. Which is probably the most basic thing that you would be looking for.

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Re:OpenBSD: Why and How (2016) by teddyh on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:10AM (#21523186)
Apples and oranges. The relevant man page for Linux is ip-address(8), not ip(8).
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Re:OpenBSD: Why and How (2016) by mprovost on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:34AM (#21523333)
Hmm I started at:

https://linux.die.net/man/8/ifconfig

which says "This program is obsolete! For replacement check ip addr and ip link" and references ip(8) in the See Also section. Neither page refers to ip-address. In fact that entry doesn't exist on die.net which seems to be what Google considers to be the authoritative source for Linux man pages.

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Re:OpenBSD: Why and How (2016) by teddyh on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:51AM (#21523455)
I can’t vouch for the updatedness of “linux.die.net”, of which I know nothing. Try this one:

https://manpages.debian.org/testing/iproute2/ip-address.8.en...

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