Oct 7, 2019 · The inet in ifconfig output is an address family: If the first argument after the interface name is recognized as the name of a supported address family, that address family is used for …

To be clearer, inet is a short for Internet. And IPvX stands for Internet Protocol version X. So indeed inet will be regular Internet Protocol (v4) and inet6 the v6 of the Internet Protocol.

Options on Ethernet interfaces: inet static – Defines a static IP address. inet manual – Does not define an IP address for an interface. Generally used by interfaces that are bridge or aggregation members, …

Jan 29, 2025 · These rules are added to table ip filter and I even tried using the nft command to add the rules in the table ip filter instead of table inet filter and that also worked.

Jan 11, 2022 · As pointed out by others, the man page for ip and ip-address can provide additional information for some of the other values that you can see in the output following inet and inet6. This …

Jul 14, 2016 · inet 10.16.x.xx netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 10.16.x.xxx I have replaced the numbers with x My aim is to remove everything apart from the inet IP's. so it just shows as: 10.16.x.xx 10.16.x.xx Is …

Oct 19, 2021 · For whatever it's worth, iface default inet dhcp did not load a usb to ethernet plugin network interface (which does load when the appropriate entries are in the interfaces file). I could not …

Feb 7, 2019 · A valid inet prefix is any prefix that matches the network you are attempting to communicate on that also aligns with the subnet. Whether that is a 10. or a 192. or other. network for …

Apr 21, 2017 · Use ifconfig command to display only active network interfaces on Unix systems with step-by-step instructions and examples.

Sep 1, 2020 · I am moving from iptables to nftables. I have a basic questions about the packet processing order in nftables. Since one can create multiple tables of same type, say inet, and also …