Sergej Pupykin wrote: > What reason? > >> R> What do you guys think of dropping the old net-tools (ifconfig) in >> R> favour of iproute2 (ip)? >
According to wikipedia: In Linux distributions based on 2.2.x Linux kernels, ifconfig, ipchains, and the route command operated together to connect a computer to a network, to define routes between networks, and to configure firewalls. Distributions based on later kernels have deprecated ifconfig, route, and ipchains, replacing them to large extent with iptables and iproute2. iproute2 includes support for all that ifconfig(8) and route(8) do, as well as traffic-control (such as bandwidth-shaping). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifconfig And ofcourse, some unforgivable bugs in ifconfig ;-) Glenn _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
