.\" 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