ifconfig
ifconfig (short for interface config) is a system administration utility in Unix-like operating systems for network interface configuration.
| Initial release | August 1983 |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Unix and Unix-like |
| Type | Command |
The utility is a command-line interface tool and is also used in the system startup scripts of many operating systems. It has features for configuring, controlling, and querying TCP/IP network interface parameters. Ifconfig originally appeared in 4.2BSD as part of the BSD TCP/IP suite.
Many Linux distributions have deprecated ifconfig in favor of tools from iproute2.
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