Package: net-tools Version: 1.60+git20150829.73cef8a-2 before: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr bc:ae:c5:e3:33:fa inet addr:192.168.205.3 Bcast:192.168.205.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: 2603:3024:180d:9900:beae:c5ff:fee3:33fa/64 Scope:Global inet6 addr: fe80::beae:c5ff:fee3:33fa/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:7270392 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4543918 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:10473484308 (9.7 GiB) TX bytes:312638423 (298.1 MiB)
after: eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.205.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.205.255 inet6 2603:3024:180d:9900:beae:c5ff:fee3:33fa prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global> inet6 fe80::beae:c5ff:fee3:33fa prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> ether bc:ae:c5:e3:33:fa txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 7078604 bytes 10198858797 (9.4 GiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 4416898 bytes 303820942 (289.7 MiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 let's add ":" after the interface name, so that if you have eth0:0, you end up with eth0:0: let's remove "addr' after 'inet' so that it can break every single script that gets the ip address from ifconfig output. Well, never mind, that new ifconfig output is almost entirely different from the old one, the one that's been around for 20 years and that countless people rely on being that way. Sure, parsing ifconfig output is not great, but countless stuff on the internet does it. ipmasq, a package I've been using for 15 years to do custom firewalling heavily parses ifconfig output, and it's only one amongst many. Also, sorry, but I don't think there is an easy way to get the IP from an interface, or even your default GW in shell. Obviously this came from upstream, please forward this complaint to them and/or ensure that this new (IMO broken) ifconfig does not spread further in debian. If someone feels the need to change ifconfig output that much, they can call it ifconfig2, or ip2. Thank you Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP 1024R/763BE901