How to change network address ?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 15:56:01 -0500,
   Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> 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.]

ifconfig has been obsolete for a long time (in the sense that ip does
more stuff, not in the packaging sense).