L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Erik Christiansen a écrit : > Around 30 years of familiarity across many *nix flavours.
You said it: the only superiority of ifconfig over iproute2 is tradition and familiarity of long-time users. On the other hand, ifconfig is technically inferior on most if not all points. I hope you realize that traditions and familiarity of old geezers can only go so far to justify the evolution or non-evolution of a system. Otherwise, we still would have ed in the base system. Regards, -- Nicolas George