Ifconfig for linux Network commands

In linux, ifconfig is a command used to display or configure network devices. Syntax ifconfig [network device] [down up-allmulti-arp-promisc] [add <address>] [del <address>] [MTU: The maximum transmission unit. Set this parameter to 1500 bytesMetrics: specify the number of incoming packets. RX: This line indicates the packets received from the network startup till now, packet indicates the number of packets, error indicates the number of errors in the packets, and dropped indicates the number of discarded packets due to problems. TX: opposite to RX, which indicates the packets sent from the network startup to the present. Collisions: indicates a packet collision. If the packet is sent too many times, the network condition is not good. Txqueuelen: indicates the storage length of the buffer for data transmission. RX bytes, TX bytes: Total number of sent and received tuples.

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