On 15-08-17, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 15.08.17 13:33, Nicolas George wrote: > > L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Erik Christiansen a écrit : > > > If it's no longer part of the base system, then perhaps the system is > > > too base? > > > > Please ellaborate. Why should ifconfig be part of the base system? > > With pleasure. It is the most basic and useful *nix networking tool, > traditional since well back in the last millennium, spanning hp-ux, > sunos, then solaris, and various linux distros, in my experience. Even > if used mostly interrogatively these days, it is the quickest way to > check how "eth0" is currently encrypted, what the IP address is, etc. It > is not anything which needs to be added - we just need busybodies to > refrain from taking it out. > > Granted, there's quite a bit of cruft taking up space, like > NetworkMunger. I've been forced to wipe that from several Ubuntu > versions in particular, as networking wouldn't function until I did. > Everything has always been sweet once that was gone. Debian does seem to > have it more under control, though, so I'll trade - leave both. > > Erik >
And what exactly do you miss in ifconfig and net-tools package, that you can not do with ip, which is part of iproute2 package that comes as part of base system?
