Ifconfig: command not found

CentOS, say it isn't so! Having just done the minimal install of CentOS 7 as a VM, I wanted to install VMware tools. I thought I installed all the prerequisites when the script halted at "Setup is unable to find the "ifconfig" program on your machine."

I ended the script and incredulously ran the ifconfig command, thinking it had to be wrong, but it's no longer included. The ip command has now taken over networking duties, but the VMware script didn't care. I ran yum provides ipconfig, but no love: "No package ifconfig available". A couple of web searches later and I found the package I needed to bring it back...

# yum install net-tools

BTW, don't be surprised if Fedora and RHEL (and it's other offspring) are missing ifconfig as well.