Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > Some of them are so trivial, that it looks like nobody is working > on it: > $ rpm -ql initscripts | xargs egrep "/route |/ifconfig " --color > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network: /sbin/route add -$args > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases:eval $(LC_ALL= LANG= > /sbin/ifconfig | LC_ALL=C sed -n ' > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases: LC_ALL=C /sbin/route -n \ > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases: > /sbin/ifconfig $parent_device:${DEVNUM} down > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases: > /sbin/ifconfig $parent_device:$rdevip down > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases: /sbin/ifconfig > $DEVICE netmask $NETMASK broadcast $BROADCAST; > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases: /sbin/ifconfig > ${DEVICE} ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST} > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases: /sbin/ifconfig > $parent_device:${DEVNUM} down All these hits are in the legacy "network" service or the legacy "ifup" scripts which go with it. Newsflash: the network service is DEPRECATED!!! That's what NetworkManager is for. > net-tools is obsolete since '99 (Red Hat Linux 6.0 - Linux-2.2), > *12 years* ago! And the network service is obsolete since at least Fedora 10, when Anaconda started defaulting to NetworkManager. (The live images already did default to NM at that point.) > It's a *shame* that all leading distributions, still rely on the > old *BSD way to do networking. They don't. They use NetworkManager by default, which doesn't use any of the scripts you mentioned there. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel