On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Peter Memishian wrote:
Right, I don't think it does -- and ifconfig is already hopeless. I think it would be better to come up with a new program (ipadm?) which provided a sane way to view and administer IP interfaces.
As a data-point. Another system abandoned ifconfig too and provided a new tool for configuring IP. That new tool is indeed more consistent in interface and better.
However, the backwards compatibility issues don't go away. Some proportion of end-users will continue to use (the bitrotting) ifconfig rather than the new tool - which sometimes leads to subtle problems due to one tool configuring things slightly differently to the other - particularly with respect to features whose configuration is more refined with the newer tool.
I.e.: A new tool only avoids backward-compatibility problems in the syntax, but not always in how the system ends up being configured (unless you remove the old tool completely, or /don't/ abandon it).
Hence there /may/ be some value in considering rehabilitating the syntax of the existing tool instead..
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