How to change network address ?

[Aaron Konstam]

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

Again I am confused. ifconfig is an executable. iproute2 is a 
directory containing non-executables. How then does iproute2 replace
ifconfig?

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