How to change network address ?

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Apr 1 20:52:11 UTC 2012


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 The man page for ifconfig simply states:  "This  program  is  obsolete!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.

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