On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:27:57AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > I have been looking at the "ip address" command. > > It appears to be the new (and cleaner) way to add addresses to network > devices (previously known as aliases). Yes. In fact, David Miller, one of the Linux network stack hackers, has been quoted as saying that ifconfig and route are deprecated and that ip is the way of the future. I know that people have suggested on this mailing list in the past that we ditch ifconfig and route in place of it, but that suggestion was shot down because people are too used to using the old commands. I wonder if we could do something to transition to ip as the default interface/route manipulation tool. Perhaps wrapper scripts? That was the suggestion by Dave Miller. > Having to allocate a /31 or /30 subnet in this case, in order > to have distinct network and broadcast addresses seems very > wasteful, as they simply are not required. I don't have any point-to-point connections, so I can't give you much help here... noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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