On Jun 10, Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> wrote: > a) ifconfig is an application that exists not only on Linux, but on many > other (free or non-free) unices as well; it would be fair to say And indeed this is the only reason to keep it around. > b) The mere fact that there is something newer which performs the same > function does in no way imply that the older implementation is Wrong. iproute does much more than route/ifconfig, which cannot support all the features of >= 2.4 networking stacks. -- ciao, Marco
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