On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Greg Maxwell wrote:
> Sergey Kubushin wrote:
> > I vote for ifconfig to be obsoleted by iproute. My next KSI Linux
> > distribution won't use ifconfig at all. I have not made a decision yet
> > whether to retain the ifconfig binary for compatibility reasons or remove
> > any trace of it outta the distribution, but chances are that it will be
> > removed at all...
> I don't know about anyone else, but I agree with this. I'm looking for
> an official word though.
>
> I'd make ifconfig a facny script that turns your ifconfig command into
> ip commands so that we could reduce the kernel interfaces at some point,
> I'd also have it warn that ifconfig is old, use ip. Or something along
> those lines...
I have to agree with Greg here , ifconfig (s/b,c/b) a script that
just makes the appropriate calls to 'ip' . Twyl, JimL
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