Re: No ifconfig
Glenn English:
I've written many scripts over the years, using ifconfig and others,
and having everything broken now is a major PITA.
I very much agree that sysV init and those old commands were a mess,
especially with the introduction of ipv6. But I'd have more inclined
to fix what was there than to replace it with commands that return
gibberish and kill so many scripts so many people have written.
That is, in fact, what the BSD people did. On FreeBSD and OpenBSD, for
examples, modern ifconfig has fully functional IPv6 capability, with
parameters like (to pick just some at random) eui64, prefixlen,
auto_linklocal, autoconfprivacy, defaultif, and ifdisabled.
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