On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 06:10:23AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Well, the only things that care about the syntax are ifupdown, and > whatever scripts users might have. ifupdown can be changed to support > both syntaxes, and users' scripts obviously can too. Of course, there's > arp and netstat which are part of net-tools but AFIAK not replaced by > iproute, so the | might not work anyway. arp is replaced by "ip neigh" Greetings Bernd