Dejan Jocic composed on 2017-08-15 15:03 (UTC+0200):
> Erik Christiansen wrote:
>> Nicolas George wrote:
>> > Please ellaborate. Why should ifconfig be part of the base system?
>> With pleasure. It is the most basic and useful *nix networking tool,
>> traditional since well back in the last millennium, spanning hp-ux,
>> sunos, then solaris, and various linux distros, in my experience. Even
>> if used mostly interrogatively these days, it is the quickest way to
>> check how "eth0" is currently encrypted, what the IP address is, etc. It
'ip a' get's me what I'm interested in with less typing than 'ifconfig -a'.
>> is not anything which needs to be added - we just need busybodies to
>> refrain from taking it out.
> And what exactly do you miss in ifconfig and net-tools package, that you
> can not do with ip, which is part of iproute2 package that comes as part
> of base system?
Interesting man page difference:
Stretch:
Ifconfig is used to configure the kernel-resident network
interfaces. It is used at boot time to set up interfaces as
necessary. After that, it is usually only needed when debug-
ging or when system tuning is needed.
If no arguments are given, ifconfig displays the status of the
currently active interfaces. If a single interface argument is
given, it displays the status of the given interface only; if a
single -a argument is given, it displays the status of all
interfaces, even those that are down. Otherwise, it configures
an interface.
openSUSE:
Ifconfig is used to configure the kernel-resident network
interfaces. It is used at boot time to set up interfaces as
necessary. After that, it is usually only needed when debug-
ging or when system tuning is needed.
WARNING: Ifconfig is obsolete on system with Linux kernel newer
than 2.0. On this system you should use ip. See the ip manual
page for details
If no arguments are given, ifconfig displays the status of the
currently active interfaces. If a single interface argument is
given, it displays the status of the given interface only; if a
single -a argument is given, it displays the status of all
interfaces, even those that are down. Otherwise, it configures
an interface.
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