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Reputation: 785

Does almost linux-like OS support ifconfig command with same usage?

I want to make ifconfig parser and runner with Python

Beginning of this question, I want to use simple API like this.

import ifconfig

ifconfig.interfaces['eth0'].ip = '192.168.0.123' # run subprocess internally

But I don't know all linux-like OS.

So I choose using ifconfig command. But I also don't know all linux-like OS support ifconfig command.

Can I know what OS do not support ifconfig basically and how to make it work? And they support same usage?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 120

Answers (1)

Henrik Pingel
Henrik Pingel

Reputation: 3193

Maybe you are better off using ip command instead. ip is more generic and there are some distributions which don't include ifconfig in their default configuration. For example ArchLinux includes ifconfig only because it might break some old scripts. Same for CentOS7 and RHEL7. It seems like ifconfig will be outdated in a few years.

Take a look at wikipedia page for ifconfig it has good summery of the current use of ifconfig among different systems.

So almost all Linux distributions include ifconfig. But at least some straight forward distributions only for backward compatibility. ifconfig support for other Unix like OS is quite good.

Upvotes: 1

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