On 13/07/18 15:15, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 13 July 2018 10:49:10 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Yes, and route (and ifconfig etc.) is obsolete. But still sometimes useful.And will probably continue to be usefull as long as the man pages for ip and friends continue to suck dead toads thru soda straws. Or something is changed to totally disable the old standby's. At which point we'll all have to learn how to use them, but this list and its collective knowledge will become the man pages for ip and kin that should have been written in the first place. Keyword is examples, few to non-existent.
Seriously Gene, you /do/ have to watch out there since the newer replacements (documented as ip-route etc.) can put things into kernel tables that the "classic" route command cannot describe adequately.
-- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]