* Rob Landley <[email protected]> [04.04.2013 10:03]: > I've used "ip" a couple times. I mostly use ifconfig, because it's > there and I see no upside in using "ip". I also use iwlist and
iwlist is also dead since a long time, the successor is 'iw' which shares/imitates to 'ip' syntax > ifenslave and tunctl and various other tools. Does ip have some kind > of plugin architecture to suck all that into one big monolithic > command? there is not plugin-arch, just one command which simply manipulates the kernels netlink-interface. > >if you are > >really using 'ifconfig', you should better switch now. the > >pain will be much worse if you wait again 2 years... > > In what way? I vaguely recall first hearing about "ip" back under Red > Hat 9, which shipped in 2003. So I've been successfully largely > ignoring it for 10 years now. What's queued up to change in the near > future? i will. there is no work done anymore on ifconfig, even the manpage says to switch. > Is there a standard on this? I'm happy to implement a standard... there is no standard, just reallive (like the mount or init-command): every developer in the network world has realized, that doing the 'ifconfg/route/arp/netstat'-thingy was a dead-end-street. bye, bastian _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
