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Re:Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux i... by squarefoot on Thursday March 19, 2020 @04:49PM (#22631578)
Understood, thanks, I'm so used to ifconfig that always tried to avoid using ip. Time to learn it I guess.
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Re:Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux i... by gerdesj on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:42PM (#22632528)
I spend a lot of times dealing with new devices. Plug it into the same VLAN as my desktop and then in a term:

# ip a a 192.168.1.32/24 dev eth0

Then put 192.168.1.1 into browser etc. Do job. Back to term. Up arrow to get last command, change the second a to d (for delete) and the extra address is gone.

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