On 2021-01-29, Grant Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> iproute2 has supplanted the venerable net-tools (or whatever it's > called); ifconfig, route, netstat, etc. My brain knows that. My fingers only partially so. > I sort of put pressure on my self to start using them 20 years ago, > and largely failed. It wasn't until about 5-10 years ago when I > started doing things with ip that couldn't be done with other older > commands that I started succeeding in migrating over to iproute2 for > 90% of what I do. I now manage to use 'ip addr' instead of ifconfig _most_ of the time. I still almost always use 'route' instead of of 'ip route'. I figure in another 20 years, I will have managed a complete transition. > Ironically, I've found myself doing / planning to do things within > the last six months that iproute2 can't / won't do; DECnet, IPX, and > AX.25/ROSE. And I didn't even know computer museums were hiring. > P.S. I tip my hat at your name. ;-) :) It can be a bit disorienting when I see an unfamiliar message signed by Grant. For many decades, I only ran into one other Grant, and then in the 90's I'd occasionally hear a toddler being called Grant. Around here, it looks like there was a "Grant" peak in 1995: https://www.startribune.com/how-popular-is-your-name-in-minnesota/506438731/?name=Grant -- Grant
