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Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?



On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 12:08:06 +0100, Samuel Thibault
<sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
>Marc Haber, on Wed 28 Dec 2016 11:33:13 +0100, wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Dec 2016 14:50:50 +0100, md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) wrote:
>> >With this post I want to encourage fellow maintainers to stop depending 
>> >on net-tools, which is obsolete software and has been replaced long ago 
>> >by iproute.
>> 
>> Does iproute work on Non-Linux kernels?
>
>No, but net-tools doesn't work on non-Linux either :)
>
>inetutils tools do, however.

Ah. Thanks for educating me. I didn't know the difference.

Greetings
Marc
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