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Hi,<br />
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I newly installed a CentOS, but when I tried to use ifconfig to find out the ip address of the machine. &nbsp;the command doesn't work. &nbsp;It seems like the ifconfig command is not there. &nbsp;Please help. &nbsp;Thanks.<br />
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Tom
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Hi,

I newly installed a CentOS, but when I tried to use ifconfig to find out the ip address of the machine.  the command doesn't work.  It seems like the ifconfig command is not there.  Please help.  Thanks.

Tom

Why ifconfig doesn't work in CentOS?

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