Hi, On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 19/03/12 10:01, David Sommerseth wrote: > [...snip...] > > > > On a related note: --enable-iproute2 > > > > Should we also expect this to be available on all *nix platforms? > > iproute2 has been available on most platforms I know of for a very > > long time, and is superior net-tools in very many ways. > > I've been educated by Gert now, and learned that iproute2 is not common > on most Unix based platforms, but is a Linux oriented tool. So this > suggestion makes no longer much sense.
Actually, I still agree with you that enabling it by default on Linux
is the way forward.
(Or hook into the netlink interface directly, but I'm not sure whether
this will lead to easier to understand code, and easier to read log files,
than what we have now - where you could, for testing, run the commands
manually to see which ones cause problems)
gert
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