10/17 How are network interfaces configured in Unix? As far as I know
they are full-duplex, but someone's asking me to verify and I
see nothing on it in man pages, books, etc. Indeed, the only
thing I found in man pages was "shutdown", to "shutdown a full-
duplex connection". Strange but true...
\_ man ifconfig
\_ They're not configured in Unix. The Unix spec doesn't include
ethernet device details. Configuration details for individual
flavors vary - you may need to specify a flag to ifconfig,
change a setting with ndd, or recompile your kernel, depending
on what OS you are running. Today's lesson: If you want help,
give enough information to get it. With "Unix" that almost always
includes the real OS name, be it Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Ultrix,
or god knows what.
or god knows what. (And quite often includes OS version number,
and for Linux, which distribution.)
\_ Solaris. I figured if I couldn't find anything on it for
Solaris it was fair game for any flavor of Unix, sorry.
\_ Solaris defaults to auto-negotation with the switch.
\_ Just one unless using ed and/or Perl.
ndd -dev /dev/<network device> can adjust it.
See http://www.sunhelp.org for the FAQs.
\_ How many ways are there to /bin/ls -l?
\_ If you want to display groups, two: one with -g, one
without, depending on BSD or SysV style. |