Re: No ifconfig

[Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de>]

Am 2017-08-21 14:50, schrieb Greg Wooledge:
> [missing features in ifconfig]
> (Like Gene, I don't even know what those featues *are*.)

From my personal experience, the following two things are
features I'm actually using regularly and that don't work
with it:

1. IPv6 doesn't really work properly (as explained elsewhere
   by other people in this thread)
2. Can't add multiple IP addresses to the same interface and
   (worse) even if multiple IP addresses are assigned to the
   same interfaces it only shows the primary address

(2) is really bad, especially the part where it does not show
all of the IPs that were assigned by other tools, for example
NetworkManager, or Debian's own ifupdown via
/etc/network/interfaces.

Regards,
Christian