.\" Copyright 2009 Petr Lautrbach (plautrba@redhat.com) 

.TH ifup 8  2009-10-27 "" "System Administration tools and Daemons"

.SH NAME

ifup - bring a network interface up

ifdown - take a network interface down

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B ifup CONFIG [boot]

.B ifdown CONFIG

.SH DESCRIPTION

The

.B ifup 

and

.B 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 argument 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.

.SH FILES

.TP

\fB/etc/sysconfig/network\fR

.TP

\fB/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<configuration>\fR 

The file defining an interface.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

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