Hi, I'm confused...
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 09:01:51PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:30:26AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > Ifconfig has been deprecated; you should probably use "ip a show > > dev lo" instad of the shorter and more convenient "ifconfig lo" > ... and often wrong The BSD ifconfig can do this with ease, and since ages, too. Why is the Linux ifconfig _so_ different? Forking for the sake of it? Eg adding an IPv6 address: # ifconfig em0 inet6 address alias and removing it: # ifconfig em0 inet6 address -alias Just asking. Cheers, --Toni++ PS: http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ifconfig.8
