Martín Ferrari dijo [Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 02:30:18PM -0300]: > Hi, > > Luk Claes and me, as the current maintainers of net-tools, we've been > thinking about it's future. Net-tools has been a core part of Debian and > any other linux based distro for many years, but it's showing its age. > (...) > Hence, our plans are to replace net-tools completely with iproute, maybe > leading the route for other distributions to follow. Of course, most > people and tools use and remember the venerable old interface, so the > first step would be to write wrappers, trying to be compatible with > net-tools.
Great news, and a bold initiative! > About the wrapper scripts: > * ipconfig, route: the most difficult ones, both can be replaced by > calls to "ip", maybe except for some obscure options. > * netstat : sstat provides almost the same information, just some > formatting changes and parsing the command line Oops... I strongly suggest providing a wrapper that matches netstat's format as closely as possible (even bug-for-bug if possible). Netstat is probably among the most used tools by sysadmins and programmers alike, both for software we distribute and for home-grown tools. Besides that, I'm all for the change. Although my fingers still prefer ifconfig over ip for some strange reason... Maybe it gets better huffman-encoded? -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org