Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network
Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 08:29:11PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 01:01:27PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> > > Ifconfig has been deprecated in Debian for some years.
> >
> > It is *not* deprecated. It is just optional, not essential.
>
> I don't know what Debian's official stance is, but if you do web
> searches for "Linux ifconfig deprecated", you find MANY results.
>
> <https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/ifconfig-vs-ip>:
> The ip command is the future of network config commands. ifconfig
> has been officially deprecated for the ip suite, so while many of
> us are still using the old ways, it is time to put those habits to
> rest and move on with the world.
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifconfig>:
> Many Linux distributions have deprecated the use of ifconfig and
> route in favor of the software suite iproute2, such as ArchLinux[3]
> or RHEL since version 7,[4] which has been available since 1999 for
> Linux 2.2.
>
> <https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/replacing-ifconfig-ip/>:
> [...] back around 2009 when the debian-devel mailing list
> announced plans on deprecating the net-tools package due to lack
> of maintenance. It is now 2015 and net-tools is still around.
>
>
> Those are the most official-sounding references I can find in a few
> minutes.
A couple more useful-looking pages I found that explain some of the
issues and history:
https://phoenixnap.com/kb/ifconfig-command-not-found
https://lwn.net/Articles/710533/
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