Re: No ifconfig
On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 09:15:42AM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
> 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.
Perhaps Devuan would better suit you? - they keep sysvinit as
primary, saving you the hassle of updating/ rewriting your scripts
and/ or learning systemd.
Or as you mention, FreeBSD or OpenBSD?
There is no shortage of options.
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