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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