On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:43:41 -0500, Bernd Walter <ti...@cicely7.cicely.de> wrote:

Want to know link states use some strange tools.

This has been my complaint for ages.

Task / BSD / Linux
set ip / ifconfig / ifconfig or now "ip" which is extremely confusing
wifi / ifconfig / iwconfig
speed / ifconfig / miitool or ethtool
duplex / ifconfig / miitool or ethtool
vlan / ifconfig / vlan
wol / ifconfig / miitool or ethtool
bridge / ifconfig / brctl
link aggregation / ifconfig / flags while loading module OR use distro network config scripts and restart *all* networking or reboot server!!!


Zero guidelines or direction in their projects. It's even more painful when you install a distro and need to set vlan or duplex and you can't because the utility needs to be installed from the repository. Not sure if that's still commonplace but I was bit by it several times with debian installs.

BSD has its own problems, but code quality and the thought put into design seems to be taken into serious consideration before something is committed to HEAD.
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