On 2017-08-19, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Saturday 19 August 2017 04:15:42 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > >> Glenn English: >> > I've written many scripts over the years, using ifconfig and others, >> > and having everything broken now is a major PITA. >> > >> > I very much agree that sysV init and those old commands were a mess, >> > especially with the introduction of ipv6. But I'd have more inclined >> > to fix what was there than to replace it with commands that return >> > gibberish and kill so many scripts so many people have written. >> > +10 > >> That is, in fact, what the BSD people did. On FreeBSD and OpenBSD, >> for examples, modern ifconfig has fully functional IPv6 capability, >> with parameters like (to pick just some at random) eui64, prefixlen, >> auto_linklocal, autoconfprivacy, defaultif, and ifdisabled. > > So when do we get that ported and into debian, replacing this gibberish > generator call ip, so we can just get back to doing the things we want > to do with a computer?
Please feel free to port those improvements. If you are unable or unwilling to do that, you will need to persuade or pay someone else to do it for you. -- Liam
