On Monday 11 May 2009 14:38:36 James wrote: > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > I've found that when I run ip link show on my box it gives me: > > > >snip> > > > > Seems like you have a truck load of kernel modules loaded that you don't > > use. Stop those modules from loading, or just don't load them until you > > really do need them. > > If I install iproute2, on gentoo, does it replace ifconfig, or are both > still usable to configure interfaces?
The latter. Two tools that both do the same job. iproute combines ifconfig and route functionality into one tool; other than that having both is about as significant as having two browsers Gentoo scripts such as net.eth0 can be configured to use either, choice is yours. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
