On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe we need to encourage development of the existing tools, > instead of developing new ones. Apparently I'm not the only one.
Unfortunately, that encouragement probably needed to happen 3 years ago. Iproute2 is well maintained by developers of the Linux networking system to make use of features available on modern hardware in Linux. The same cannot be said of net-tools. Certainly ifconfig is a useful tool, but it's simply been deprecated by the Iproute2 utilities. I mean, you can still use CVS for version control, but that doesn't mean there aren't other tools that do the job better. However, if net-tools gets the job done for you and you like it, then by all means stick with it. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
