Randy McMurchy wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 03/10/08 22:12 CST: > >> I will continue to use it and promote its use. Sorry. > > I know that sounds crappy. Sorry for that. It simply came out > bad and I really didn't proofread.
Nothing wrong with that at all. It's personal preference. When I came aboard the Linux bandwagon, I didn't have a choice, what was it, 10, 11, damn, 13 years ago. RH5.0 or 5.1 was my first. Shortly thereafter, iproute2 entered in RH6.1 but I had already a preference for ifconfig. When we got it, I forced myself to learn it and I stuck with it. > Net-Tools is not dead. I've been using these tools for 20-something > years, so it's hard to learn new stuff when the existing may still > be the status-quo. See http://net-tools.berlios.de/ > > Though development stopped for a while, the effectiveness of the > tool did not. Other folks also recognize this. Actually, from rough memory, it did for the entire duration of 2.2 kernels and most of 2.4, just not for basic configuration of a NIC. As Bruce mentioned later in this thread, the existing tools weren't easily modified to meet the needs of the routing for 2.2 and 2.4 kernels, or IPv6, so a new tool was created. I have no idea of the full capabilities of either tool{,set}, then or now. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
