Re: No ifconfig
On Saturday 19 August 2017 04:15:42 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.
>
+10
> 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.
So when do we get that ported and into debian, replacing this gibberish
generator call ip, so we can just get back to doing the things we want
to do with a computer?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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