Re: net-tools future
Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Mar 15, Martín Ferrari <tincho@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> * netstat : sstat provides almost the same information, just some
>> formatting changes and parsing the command line
> While I am happy to see ifconfig and route go, I am not sure that
> netstat is in the same category and should be replaced with something
> which is not 100% compatibile in the output.
>
>> * nameif: can be replaced by "ip link", not sure if it's worth the
>> effort (does anybody actually use it?)
> Kill it ASAP, it's not compatible with udev.
Being able to rename an interface without messing with udev is a feature, not a bug.
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