2013/4/3 Bastian Bittorf <[email protected]> > it needed some days to find the right arguments, but i try to make it > short: > > dont implement 'ifconfig'. it's totally obsolete since nearly 10 years. > nobody uses it anymore, even the manpage of 'ifconfig' shows this in >
nope. many script does use ifconfig. for example: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/how-can-i-use-udhcpc-800236/ > big letters, it's so much restricted and doesnt know much about networking, > it's a relict if the 1990's and must die. > > better make a stub of 'ip' and implement: > > ip link add/del/show > ip address add/del/show > ip route add/del/show > ip neigh add/del/show > > ifconfig is so fundamentally wrong in architecture, thats > not worth the work. for greybeards you can add a wrapper > which translates every call to ifconfig/route/arp with a > stderr output of "deprecated: use 'ip address show blabla...'". > > sorry for the hard words, but someone must say it 8-) > > bye, bastian > _______________________________________________ > Toybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net > 2013/4/3 Bastian Bittorf <[email protected]> > it needed some days to find the right arguments, but i try to make it > short: > > dont implement 'ifconfig'. it's totally obsolete since nearly 10 years. > nobody uses it anymore, even the manpage of 'ifconfig' shows this in > big letters, it's so much restricted and doesnt know much about networking, > it's a relict if the 1990's and must die. > > better make a stub of 'ip' and implement: > > ip link add/del/show > ip address add/del/show > ip route add/del/show > ip neigh add/del/show > > ifconfig is so fundamentally wrong in architecture, thats > not worth the work. for greybeards you can add a wrapper > which translates every call to ifconfig/route/arp with a > stderr output of "deprecated: use 'ip address show blabla...'". > > sorry for the hard words, but someone must say it 8-) > > bye, bastian > _______________________________________________ > Toybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net >
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