ifconfig problem of busybox 1.4.1?

[Robin Farine]

On Thursday March 22 2007 07:09, Jan Evert van Grootheest wrote:
> > If I run ifconfig command with "inet" parameter, I got
> > following message:
> >
> > fconfig eth0 inet 10.1.0.2
> > ifconfig: inet: Resolver Error 0 (no error)

> Maybe you're confused with the /etc/network/interfaces syntax
> (iface eth0 inet dhcp)?
> Or the ip utility (-f inet)?
> AFAIK there is no inet keyword for ifconfig. Never was. I checked
> RHEL2.1 and Ubuntu feisty (pre-7.04).

Perhaps not in the busybox version but the version from the NET-3 
networking toolkit allows the address family to be explicitly 
specified:

    Usage:
        ifconfig [-a] [-v] [-s] <interface> [[<AF>] <address>]


Robin