Re: No ifconfig
On 2017-08-19, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> 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?
Please feel free to port those improvements. If you are unable or
unwilling to do that, you will need to persuade or pay someone else to
do it for you.
--
Liam
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