On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 14:53:39 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 14:19:37 David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 13:24:56 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 10:48:12 Nicolas George wrote: > > > > L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Erik Christiansen a écrit : > > > > > Around 30 years of familiarity across many *nix flavours. > > > > > > > > You said it: the only superiority of ifconfig over iproute2 is > > > > tradition and familiarity of long-time users. On the other hand, > > > > ifconfig is technically inferior on most if not all points. > > > > > > > > I hope you realize that traditions and familiarity of old geezers > > > > can only go so far to justify the evolution or non-evolution of a > > > > system. Otherwise, we still would have ed in the base system. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Nicolas: The nearest ipv6 address to me is likely 150 miles north, > > > in Pittsburgh PA. Its all ipv4 here in WV AFAIK. > > > > Odd, the nearest to me is underneath the table. I use 6 a lot, > > as a cat5 cable is much faster than two legs of weak wireless > > to the router and back. And it requires no configuration—it's > > just there. > > > > Cheers, > > David. > > Thats a bridge I'll cross, if it gets here before I miss morning roll > call. :)
If you do, you'll be on a charge. :) -- Brian.
