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

Isaac Dunham idunham at lavabit.com
Fri Apr 5 11:48:22 PDT 2013


On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 09:08:56 +0200
Bastian Bittorf <bittorf at bluebottle.com> wrote:

> > 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
(snip 100+ lines of manpage) 
> 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)
It appears that someone just split out the help for each subcommand.
But you had better include manpages for each of the ones you want in your total...which is at least 
ip ip-address ip-route ip-neighbor ip-link
and probably more.

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Isaac Dunham <idunham at lavabit.com>


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