On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 07:46:23AM -0600, Hans Fugal wrote: > On Thu, 3 May 2007 at 10:06 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > 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? > > See the Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control HOWTO > (http://lartc.org), it gives you lots of information about iproute.
Thanks, that was interesting reading. It did not seem to offer to do anything I'm interested in doing, but it is nice to know it's there should I ever need it. Meanwhile, I think I can get along just fine using tools I'm familiar with. -- 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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