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sebest
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Location: Paris - France
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 Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 3:46 pm Post subject: /sbin/ifconfig or /usr/sbin/ip |
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Why do gentoo still use ifconfig in /etc/init.d/net.eth0 script instead of using the new "ip" tools to configure interfaces, routes and so on??
I thought ifconfig was deprecated since kernel 2.4 ? |
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kashani
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Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 1:35 am Post subject: ifconfig |
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I'd estimate the chances of ifconfig being dropped from Linux or any Unix about the same as /usr/sbin/sendmail going away. I did notice that the iproute package is not installed by default. I can't seem to find any other Linux distro that installs it by default much less actually uses it... do you know of one?
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psp
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Joined: 06 Aug 2002
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Location: Cape Town, South Africa
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| Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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The later versions of redhat linux use ip for there startup scripts etc. The still provide ifconfig as this is a tool that most users/administrators are "used to".
It's really just a comfort thing...  |
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