Hi, On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 13:04, Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With wrapper scripts, are you only talking about the interface to set > stuff or would you also want to mimick the existing output? Because I > think the output from commands like ifconfig and route is so old and > well-known that people rely on it both in scripts and just in mental > parsing. Both, I know that many people had written stuff on top of that output and interface. > net-tools doesn't suffer any showstoppers, is there a good reason to > replace it at this time? iproute is indeed much better, but it is not even > part of a standard Debian install currently. Maybe that's something that > we should start with if we want to migrate towards iproute. It's not something to be done in a day. But I think that given the amount of bug net-tools has, and the fact that it can't do much of the cool stuff provided by 2.4+ kernels, it's time for its retirement. And yes, iproute should become priority important. -- Martín Ferrari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
