[Toybox] complaining about 'ifconfig' - better use 'ip'

Bastian Bittorf bittorf at bluebottle.com
Wed Apr 3 08:28:00 PDT 2013


* Isaac Dunham <idunham at lavabit.com> [03.04.2013 17:16]:
> I learned Linux in 2006, and use ifconfig all the time.  
> It's much more informative, much more obvious to use 

ofcourse this is always, from which side you are looking.                                                                                                      

if you are used to 'ifconfig' and never used 'ip' than you                                                                                                     
have to read something about it. same vica versa. if you are                                                                                                   
really using 'ifconfig', you should better switch now. the                                                                                                     
pain will be much worse if you wait again 2 years...                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                               
bye, bastian                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                               
PS:                                                                                                                                                            
ip address add 192.168.1.2/24 dev eth0                                                                                                                         
ip address show                                                                                                                                                
ip route list exact 0/0 table mytable                                                                                                                          
ip route get 10.63.12.4                                                                                                                                        
ip neigh show                         



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