diff -Naur inetutils-2.0.orig/ifconfig/system/linux.c inetutils-2.0/ifconfig/system/linux.c
--- inetutils-2.0.orig/ifconfig/system/linux.c	2012-01-09 11:45:35.000000000 -0500
+++ inetutils-2.0/ifconfig/system/linux.c	2012-01-09 11:46:13.000000000 -0500
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@
 #include "../ifconfig.h"
 
 
+#ifndef PATH_PROCNET_DEV
+  #define PATH_PROCNET_DEV "/proc/net/dev"
+#endif
+
 /* ARPHRD stuff.  */
 
 static void