difference in "ifconfig" WRT interface sit0
Jason Schoon
floydpink at gmail.com
Mon Jun 19 14:32:44 UTC 2006
On 6/19/06, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>
> i'm in the middle of messing with something else, otherwise i'd
> submit my own patch.
>
> on my FC5 system, using native "ifconfig":
>
> $ ifconfig -a
> ...
> sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
> NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> using the natively-compiled busybox on that same system:
>
> $ ./ifconfig -a
> ...
> sit0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
> 00-00-00-00-00-00-20-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
> NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>
>
> note the difference in only the first line of output for interface
> sit0. would someone else like to deal with that if it's worth fixing?
>
> rday
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The "ip" applet in busybox handles sit0 correctly, so that could be a clue
for someone. I don't use ifconfig, so I won't get to it anytime immediate.
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