On 08/08/12 12:30, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 08/08/2012 06:21 PM, David Given wrote: >> ifconfig (before this discussion I'd never even *heard* of ip) >> > This kind of remark make be say that probably, it'd be > nice to have ifconfig display a warning as this one: > > "ifconfig is deprecated, please use ip instead" That might be helpful if and only if it gave the syntax of the equivalent ip command. Roger