Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:32:29PM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote: > >> I'm arguing in favour of the inclusion of the ifconfig/ip, route, host >> and netstat commands in the Linux Essentials Objectives; however I do >> not agree with Anselm that this involves including «Manually setting up >> IP addresses» and like skills. To me all people should know is: >> > How long has it been since ip replaced ifconfig and route?
Well, it hasn't replaced them yet; they've been coexisting for a good number of years. I think there are still some distros using ifconfig and route in init scripts. > Given the > number of things ifconfig and route can't do or do incorrectly, would > anyone still be using them? Are there really systems so old in use that > you would need those obsolete commands anymore? At least you said host, > rather than nslookup. > I personally think that ifconfig will be definitively dropped when IPv6 will reach the masses, that is when Internet Providers will start configuring their customers' boxes (cable or *DSL units) using IPv6 addresses rather than IPv4 ones. Maybe a little sooner, considering that the net-tools where last updated on April 15th, 2001: https://developer.berlios.de/projects/net-tools/ and they might at some point become incompatible with some important update of the Linux networking stack, but I don't think this will happen soon, not before a couple of years of yet more patching by distro developers (counting 23 now in Debian stable). Good night (I'm going to bed). -- Alessandro Selli Tel: 340.839.73.05 http://alessandro.route-add.net, VOIP: sip:[email protected] Chiave PGP/GPG key: EC885A8B _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
