On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:13:33AM -0600, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > Might I suggest in all of this that you begin to learn the new tools? > emerge iproute2 and use the 'ip' command. ifconfig is deprecated and has not > supported all of the features of the Linux networking stack since the 2.4 > kernels. It's embarrassing IMO that most distros still ship with ifconfig as > the default.
I'd have learned about it had I known about it. ip must be one of the better kept secrets of Linux. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. The man page is a bit obtuse; can you recommend a write-up more oriented to those who are new to the program? -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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