Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:20:37 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: Why is traffic shapper still in 2.3.x? |
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Hello All,
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Greg Maxwell wrote: > Sergey Kubushin wrote: > > I vote for ifconfig to be obsoleted by iproute. My next KSI Linux > > distribution won't use ifconfig at all. I have not made a decision yet > > whether to retain the ifconfig binary for compatibility reasons or remove > > any trace of it outta the distribution, but chances are that it will be > > removed at all... > I don't know about anyone else, but I agree with this. I'm looking for > an official word though. > > I'd make ifconfig a facny script that turns your ifconfig command into > ip commands so that we could reduce the kernel interfaces at some point, > I'd also have it warn that ifconfig is old, use ip. Or something along > those lines...
I have to agree with Greg here , ifconfig (s/b,c/b) a script that just makes the appropriate calls to 'ip' . Twyl, JimL
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