ethtool not in default system anymore?

Benny Amorsen benny+usenet at amorsen.dk
Thu Oct 14 12:47:52 UTC 2010


Jiri Popelka <jpopelka at redhat.com> writes:

> I'm not sure. We are trying to eventually get net-tools out of the 
> default install.
> Most of the scripts (initscripts/networking) has been using iproute commands
> now and we're trying to navigate people to switch to ip as well.

Maybe it would be worth attacking vconfig -> ip link add as well?

>From a quick look, all that needs fixing are these 2 lines in fcoe-utils
/usr/libexec/fcoe/fcoe-setup.sh

        vconfig set_name_type DEV_PLUS_VID_NO_PAD
        vconfig add $ifname $vlan > /dev/null

which I believe could be replaced with:

        ip link add link $ifname name $ifname.$vlan type vlan id $vlan


/Benny



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