On 17.10.2012 [17:05:47 -0500], James Cammarata wrote:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Orion Poplawski
<orion(a)cora.nwra.com> wrote:
> On 10/17/2012 03:50 PM, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
>>
>> On 15.10.2012 [11:22:27 -0600], Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>>
>>> Fedora 18 doesn't have ifconfig in the installer (and perhaps not in
>>> installed system), need to use ip.
>>
>>
>> Did you ensure this works as expected on older Fedora too? Is it better
>> to use ifconfig when present (as it's tested) and switch to ip only when
>> ifconfig isn't there?
>
>
> I have not tested on older Fedora, but you're using ip already to set the
> route, so it is present. And ip on RHEL5 has the -o option, so I think
> shifting to ip is the way to go. It's easier to parse.
The ip command has been around for a while, I've used it as early RHEL
4, so this change should work for just about any distro.
Fair enough, mostly just wondered what the testing coverage was. Thanks!
-Nish