> On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > From my point of view the real criteria for removing the shaper device is
> > a good document explaining how to set up the CBQ stuff to provide an
> > equivalent setup. Once there is a good guide to transferring from one to the
> > other then it is reasonable to drop shaper
>
> I just started working on a Advanced-networking howto, which will
> hopefully explain the new advanced networking completely enough. (Now that
> I've spent countless hours reading the blasted code, fooling with it, and
> using it in a production enviroment)..
>
> The bigest problem I'm having:
>
> I can't seem to manage to explain the new stuff (CBQ, 'fancy' routing,
> qdiscs, etc) without throwing out the Unix compatible stuff (ifconfig, the
> illusion of addresses bound to interfaces, etc) and just using the
> iproute2 tools.
>
>
> Are we going to depricate ifconfig? Once the new stuff is a bit more
> polished will it be the official Linux userspace network config util set?
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...
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