Richard Melville wrote:
It was ftp and telnet that I was thinking of, along with rcp, rexec, rlogin, rsh and tftp. Surely, ifconfig has been marked as deprecated for some time and replaced with iproute2.
I agree that the r* programs are obsolete, but the others are useful in some circumstances. Many users, including me, expect ifconfig. Do you know of any distros that do not include ifconfig?
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