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

[Bastian Bittorf]

* Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> [05.04.2013 09:00]:
> >bastian at box:~$ man ip | wc -l
> >150
> >
> >bastian at box:~$ lsb_release  -a
> >No LSB modules are available.
> >Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
> >Description:	Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch)
> >Release:	13.04
> >Codename:	raring
> 
> You're aware that this man page is available online, right?
> 
>   http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man8/ip.8.html

strange. here (150 lines, local man-page of ubuntu 13.04):

IP(8)
Linux
IP(8)



NAME
       ip - show / manipulate routing, devices, policy routing and
tunnels

SYNOPSIS
       ip [ OPTIONS ] OBJECT { COMMAND | help }


       OBJECT := { link | addr | addrlabel | route | rule | neigh |
ntable | tunnel | tuntap | maddr | mroute | mrule | monitor | xfrm |
netns | l2tp | tcp_metrics }


       OPTIONS := { -V[ersion] | -s[tatistics] | -r[esolve] | -f[amily]
{ inet | inet6 | ipx | dnet | link } | -o[neline] }


OPTIONS
       -V, -Version
              print the version of the ip utility and exit.


       -s, -stats, -statistics
              output more information.  If the option appears twice or
more, the amount of information increases.  As a rule, the information
is statistics or some time values.


       -l, -loops
              Specify maximum number of loops the 'ip addr flush' logic
will attempt before giving up.  The default is 10.  Zero (0) means loop
until all addresses are removed.


       -f, -family
              followed by protocol family identifier: inet,
inet6,bridge,ipx,dnet or link, enforce the protocol family to use.  If
the option is not present, the protocol family is guessed from other
arguments.  If the rest of the command line does not give enough
information to guess the family, ip falls back to the default one,
usually inet or any.  link is a special family identifier meaning that
no networking protocol is involved.


       -4     shortcut for -family inet.


       -6     shortcut for -family inet6.


       -B     shortcut for -family bridge.


       -0     shortcut for -family link.


       -o, -oneline
              output each record on a single line, replacing line feeds
with the '\' character. This is convenient when you want to count
records with wc(1) or to grep(1) the output.


       -r, -resolve
              use the system's name resolver to print DNS names instead
of host addresses.


IP - COMMAND SYNTAX
   OBJECT
       address
              - protocol (IP or IPv6) address on a device.


       addrlabel
              - label configuration for protocol address selection.


       l2tp   - tunnel ethernet over IP (L2TPv3).


       link   - network device.


       maddress
              - multicast address.


       monitor
              - watch for netlink messages.


       mroute - multicast routing cache entry.


       mrule  - rule in multicast routing policy database.


       neighbour
              - manage ARP or NDISC cache entries.


       netns  - manage network namespaces.


       ntable - manage the neighbor cache's operation.


       route  - routing table entry.


       rule   - rule in routing policy database.


       tcp_metrics/tcpmetrics
              - manage TCP Metrics


       tunnel - tunnel over IP.


       tuntap - manage TUN/TAP devices.


       xfrm   - manage IPSec policies.


       The names of all objects may be written in full or abbreviated
form, f.e.  address is abbreviated as addr or just a.


   COMMAND
       Specifies the action to perform on the object.  The set of
possible actions depends on the object type.  As a rule, it is possible
to add, delete and show (or list ) objects, but some objects do not
allow all of these operations or have some additional commands.  The
help command is available for all objects.  It prints out a list of
available commands and argument syntax conventions.

       If no command is given, some default command is assumed.  Usually
it is list or, if the objects of this class cannot be listed, help.


HISTORY
       ip was written by Alexey N. Kuznetsov and added in Linux 2.2.

SEE ALSO
       ip-address(8), ip-addrlabel(8), ip-l2tp(8), ip-link(8),
ip-maddress(8), ip-monitor(8), ip-mroute(8), ip-neighbour(8),
ip-netns(8), ip-ntable(8), ip-route(8), ip-rule(8), ip-tcp_metrics(8),
ip-tunnel(8), ip-xfrm(8)
       IP Command reference ip-cref.ps

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bug to the Network Developers mailing list
<netdev at vger.kernel.org> where the development and maintenance is
primarily done.  You do not have to be subscribed to the list to send a
message there.


AUTHOR
       Original Manpage by Michail Litvak <mci at owl.openwall.com>



iproute2
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