I agree, if we removed ifconfig I think i'd eventually go crazy from my
muscle memory always typing 'ifconfig eth0' to see my ip and getting
command not found.
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Charlie Murff
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Greetings from Tacoma, WA, USA, only 2,668 cars stolen last year,
Sergej! On Wednesday, June 20, in the 2007th year of our Lord, you
wrote:
R> What do you guys think of dropping the old net-tools (ifconfig) in
R> favour of iproute2 (ip)?
What reason?
One tool is depreciated and is old and crusty, the other is shiny and
new? I "prefer" iproute2 myself, mostly because it's a bit more
powerful. But removing net-tools entirely might be a bit extreme.
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Take it easy, Charles
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:: Playing "Juno" by Dj Tiësto (Forbidden Paradise 3 - The Quest For
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Please keep the old tools us old timers are found of.
Very best regards;
Bob Finch
Liviu Librescu - În veci pomenirea lui.
(May his memory be eternal.)
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