Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 08:29:11PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 01:01:27PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > Ifconfig has been deprecated in Debian for some years. > > > > It is *not* deprecated. It is just optional, not essential. > > I don't know what Debian's official stance is, but if you do web > searches for "Linux ifconfig deprecated", you find MANY results. > > <https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/ifconfig-vs-ip>: > The ip command is the future of network config commands. ifconfig > has been officially deprecated for the ip suite, so while many of > us are still using the old ways, it is time to put those habits to > rest and move on with the world. > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifconfig>: > Many Linux distributions have deprecated the use of ifconfig and > route in favor of the software suite iproute2, such as ArchLinux[3] > or RHEL since version 7,[4] which has been available since 1999 for > Linux 2.2. > > <https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/replacing-ifconfig-ip/>: > [...] back around 2009 when the debian-devel mailing list > announced plans on deprecating the net-tools package due to lack > of maintenance. It is now 2015 and net-tools is still around. > > > Those are the most official-sounding references I can find in a few > minutes.
A couple more useful-looking pages I found that explain some of the issues and history: https://phoenixnap.com/kb/ifconfig-command-not-found https://lwn.net/Articles/710533/
