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Old 08-26-2008
You can also figure it out using:
netstat -rn
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Old 08-26-2008
isn't that something which would show the kernel routing table ?
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Old 08-26-2008
and as sad_angle pointed out ifconfig is normally in /sbin so isn't in a normal users path (usually).
so the command (to a confused unix virgin) will be
/sbin/ifconfig ( most linuxes )
/sbin/ifconfig -a (solaris and probably others)
 
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