Re: /etc/network/interfaces & point-to-point ethernet & broadcast address
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 09:44:23PM -0800, Thomas Zimmerman wrote:
> > > Yes. In fact, David Miller, one of the Linux network stack hackers,
> > > has been quoted as saying that ifconfig and route are deprecated and
There are some network hackers who are opposed to the old net-tools, cause
in some respect they suck. This is mainly because net-tools use ioctl/proc
interrface which does not very well support the new features.
I am in the process of slowly addint netlink support to the net-tools, since
I still consider them very imporant since they are kind of compatible with
other unix falvors.
> Probably because there arn't any docs for ip, nor is it covered in all
> of the HowTos that newbies are pointed to.
Well.. even if I do not like ip, this claim must be corrected. ip has a very
good docuemntation doc, and is covered in most of the networking howtos.
Especially in the advanced routing howto.
> I've ranted about this, but I _still_ can't find a man page for ip
This is most likely easy to solve. I wont do it :)
BTW: I started to add bsd compatible output to ifconfig, i am jast not sure
if it is worth the hassle:
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 metric 1
inet 10.0.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255
inet6 3ffe:400:4f0:ffff::3 prefixlen 112 scopeid 0x0<global>
inet6 fe80::2e0:7dff:fe92:1f0b prefixlen 10 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:e0:7d:92:1f:0b txqueuelen 100 (Ethernet)
RX packets 4664330 bytes 4210664155 (3.9 GiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 2592323 bytes 344898138 (328.9 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 9 base 0x9000
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 16436 metric 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 116330 bytes 9965832 (9.5 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 116330 bytes 9965832 (9.5 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
Greetings
Bernd
Upstream + Debian net-tools maintainer.
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