net-tools must die

[Ben Boeckel]

Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez at gmail.com> wrote:
> At the same time, we believe that most packages using net-tools should
> be patched to use iproute instead, while others can continue using the
> wrappers for some time. The ifupdown package is obviously the first
> candidate, but it seems that a version using iproute has been available
> in experimental since 2007.

Maybe this is the wrong place, but is iproute going to honor
USERCTL="yes" in the ifcfg scripts? It seems it currently doesn't
whereas ifup/ifdown do:

% grep USERCTL /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-em2
USERCTL="yes"
% ip link set em2 down
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted

--Ben