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Re: missing gw in route -n



On Friday 13 July 2018 14:43:43 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

> 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 is obsolete.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.

This may well be true, but until I can decode from the manpage just what 
this particular version or cousin of it will do to me, I don't have a 
pole long enough to touch it. I don't care if the new man pages if there 
are any, are 20 pages long because an adequate description of what it 
can do has been added. It needs to be done if its ever to replace 
ifconfig and route in common use.

You've obviously figured out some of it, but I've other, sometimes more 
important things to do, like keeping my lawn from looking like an amazon 
forest, taking care of an invalid wife, etc, etc. 
-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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