Linux Windows System Administrator Help » mii-tool http://linuxwindowsmaster.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:58:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 What is the difference between mii-tool and ifconfig ? http://linuxwindowsmaster.com/what-is-the-difference-between-mii-tool-and-ifconfig/ http://linuxwindowsmaster.com/what-is-the-difference-between-mii-tool-and-ifconfig/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:12:15 +0000 Alex P http://linuxwindowsmaster.com/what-is-the-difference-between-mii-tool-and-ifconfig/ mii-tool => only gives information whether the link is up or not, thus
used to see whether our drivers are properly installed and is our network
card detected properly.

ifconfig -> gives information about the ip set to the system, mak address,
gateway etc. also it can used to set the ip address temporarily to the
system like, *ifconfig eth0 *

Regards

Alex P

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