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Old 28th March 2010
tetrodozombie tetrodozombie is offline
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Let me say I don't think anyone should ever use a tool like "ifconfig" and not be intimately familar with it and all it can do. For anyone who wants to get on the fast track to learning internet fundamentals and the ins and outs of Unix, you gotta know ifconfig like it's the back of your hand. This is the one tool I see that will enable you to be a proficient hacker or awsome sys admin if that's what you want to be. Plan on reading the terrific OpenBSD man page on ifconfig for about a month while you're debugging your usb network adapter. Expect to spend about a month learning how to use ifconfig and dhclient to get on the web. The experience will be worth the wait because you will start to understand how that Unix box works. You'll start to become familar with the capabilities of network command line tools.

You could cheet and use a GUI. But, you'll always be dependent on someone else's knowledge, expertise, yada, yada, yada. To be really good, you have to work at it.
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