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How to install ifconfig on CentOS 7

October 5, 2017
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Install ifconfig on CentOS 7

Missing ifconfig command on your CentOS 7 server? This post helps you to install ifconfig on CentOS 7.

You may noticed the following error while executing the ifconfig command on CentOS 7 server. This error is due to the ifconfig is not installed on it.

[root@server ~]# ifconfig
-bash: ifconfig: command not found
[root@server ~]#

You can use “ip” command to find the details of a network interface card. Please see the sample output below:

[root@server ~]# ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: venet0: <BROADCAST,POINTOPOINT,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
link/void 
inet 127.0.0.1/32 scope host venet0
inet 192.168.1.10/32 brd 192.168.1.10 scope global venet0:0
[root@server ~]#

Install ifconfig

If you wish to enable ifconfig command, you just need to install net-tools package using yum.

yum install net-tools

Now, you will be able to use ifconfig.

[root@server ~]# ifconfig
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 8 bytes 790 (790.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 8 bytes 790 (790.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

venet0: flags=211<UP,BROADCAST,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP> mtu 1500
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 broadcast 0.0.0.0 destination 127.0.0.1
unspec 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 txqueuelen 0 (UNSPEC)
RX packets 455616 bytes 175306713 (167.1 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 344749 bytes 46182190 (44.0 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

venet0:0: flags=211<UP,BROADCAST,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.255 broadcast 192.168.1.10 destination 192.168.1.10
unspec 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 txqueuelen 0 (UNSPEC)

[root@server ~]#

That’s it!

Also Read: Install SAR (sysstat) on CentOS

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