On CentOS 6.x and before, ifconfig command by default used to shipped. Whereas in minimal installed CentOS 7 , I have not found ifconfig command.
This will give you the error , ifconfig command not found.
To get the ifconfig command into our system , run the below given command
yum install net-tools
Now check the ifconfig command and its path in system (which
and whereis
command will help)
ifconfig ifconfig -a which ifconfig whereis ifconfig
How I got to know net-tools package need to be installed
Using yum command with provides
or whatprovides
options help to give you list of package which is required for that particular command.
As per man page of yum :
provides or whatprovides
Is used to find out which package provides some feature or file. Just use a specific name or a file-glob-syntax wildcards to list the packages available or installed that provide that feature or file.
We have used the below given command to find which package provides the ifconfig command.
yum provides ifconfig
Below screenshot is last section of command output.