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 The man page for ifconfig simply states: "This program is obsolete!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. -- ======================================================================= He who spends a storm beneath a tree, takes life with a grain of TNT. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
