On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 04:45 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
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The man page for ifconfig simply states: "This program is obsolete!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.