On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 21:47:18 -0700, Christopher Aillon <caillon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Though, if someone had come by and made a new CLI tool for managing > networks a few years ago, would people really decide to switch their CLI > tool because of it? Would it have gotten the development and user > community behind it to support its development? My guess is probably > not, especially given there were several CLI tools that attempted to do > the automation back when NM first came out. People are picky about > their command line tools. What happened happened, and probably couldn't > have happened any other way. There was a change a few years ago. ip replaced ifconfig and route. Before that ipchains was replaced by iptables. There is an iptables replacement undergoing development now. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
