ifup(8)                                      System Administration tools and Daemons                                     ifup(8)



NAME
       ifup - bring a network interface up

       ifdown - take a network interface down

SYNOPSIS
       ifup IFACE [boot]

       ifdown IFACE


DESCRIPTION
       The  ifup  and  ifdown  commands  may  be used to configure (or, respec- tively, deconfigure) network interfaces based on
       interface definitions in the files /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<configuration>

       These scripts take one argument normally: the name of the configuration (e.g. eth0). They are called with a second  argu-
       ment  of  "boot"  during  the  boot  sequence so that devices that are not meant to be brought up on boot (ONBOOT=no, see
       below) can be ignored at that time.


FILES
       /etc/sysconfig/network


       /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<configuration>
              The file defining an interface.


SEE ALSO
       /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt



                                                           2009-10-27                                                    ifup(8)