I am doing a review of the configuration of all our Cisco equipment after taking over from my predecessor. I noticed in one of the routers has a loopback interface on it but I can’t account for the ...

Unix sysadmins routinely use the “ifconfig -a” command to list network parameters associated with their systems. In particular, they use this command to determine the IP address, netmask and broadcast ...

The ifconfig command can tell you a lot about your Unix server’s connection to your network and the role it’s playing in both generating and receiving network traffic. The newer ip command does much ...