On 04/02/2012 04:09 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-04-01 at 09:10 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> On Sun, 2012-04-01 at 21:17 +0800, Alick Zhao wrote:
>>> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:56:01 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>>> To make ifconfig obsolete is really weird. It sounds to me that
>>>> developers of Fedora have to much time on their hands. Next I expect
>>>> they will change the name of vi. Oh, I forgot it is now vim. Where is
Ed
>>>> Joy when we need him? [He was the creator of vi, in the very
beginning.]
>>> AFAIK ifconfig is deprecated in favor of iproute2, which seems not
>>> specific to Fedora. See also the link below[1].
>>>
>>> [1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifconfig#Current_status
>>>
>>> --
>>> alick
>>> Fedora 16 (Verne) user
>>>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Alick
> Let me extend my rant a little bit further. There is no program under
> F16 called iproute2.
OK, so somewhere along the line someone misspoke or a misunderstanding arose. BFD.
The man page for ifconfig simply states: "This program is obsolete! For
replacement check ip addr and ip link. For statistics use ip -s link."
The ip command is part of the iproute2 "package". Misunderstanding cleared.
I'm not
going to back in this thread to see where the problem arose, but if it is the
documentation causing it, then by all means a bugzilla should be written.
ip is not
part of the iproute2 package. It is part of the iproute
package. So we can fix at least one misunderstanding.
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