On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Brad Allen wrote:
3. On a minor note, I find the "ip" program written by Alexey Kuznetsov
<kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> available at ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing/
which replaces the "ifconfig" and "route" commands to be very well
written in terms of usability and consistency, and recommend it to
This program is packaged and works, it is called 'iproute' - the lack of
man pages or info documents makes using it as the recommended route entry
program a non-starter. Besides, ifconfig and route are standard commands
that work on pretty much every system.