check network configuration and MAC address

General Discussion
1

How can one check the current network settings and MAC address? ifconfig is not available. Is there a utility in DietPi that display this information?

2 
networkctl status eth0
3

Hi,

ifconfig deprecated.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/pro-tip-use-the-ip-command-in-favor-of-the-deprecated-ifconfig/

But you can use ip commands to show network status/settings like

ip a
4

networkctl is not showing as a valid command on my dietpi headless minimal install.

5

you mean something like following error message?

root@DietPiOPi5:~# networkctl
Failed to connect system bus: No such file or directory
root@DietPiOPi5:~#

this is expected as we don’t install dbus by default. Furthermore we don’t use systemd-networkd as we use ifupdown to manage the network interfaces

6

i ended up installing net-tools with sudo apt install net-tools. Then Ifconfig worked and shows the MAC address as the listing ether.

7

Without installing anything you can use ip link show to see MAC addresses of your interfaces.

8

I’m going to quote myself