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



NAME
       ifup - bring a network interface up

       ifdown - take a network interface down

SYNOPSIS
       ifup CONFIG [boot]

       ifdown CONFIG


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 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.


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)