Quoting Ralph Ronnquist via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > It's intriguing to see you get so emotional about this.
I obviously would not presume to speak for Allesandro, but sometimes people get frustrated in Internet arguments in ways they might not in more-interactive discussion. (Anyway, I'd always rather make charitable assumptions about people. Well, not always, as achieving a saing a saintly disposition is still a work in process. But one tries.) > Just the other week I opted for using ifconfig because I couldn't work > out the single command for confguring a tap with an IP address, and > bring it up. With ip, I seemed to need 3 commands, so at that time I > liked ifconfig better. I I completely know how that is, starting with familiarity and then continuing with efficiency (or apparent efficiency). I may more may not ever get as comfortable with 'ss' as I am with netstat, for example, and 'netstat -nalp' is hard-wired into my memory, whereas I have to look up the 'ss' equivalent, every time. This iproute2 user guide might help, as it has for me: https://www.baturin.org/docs/iproute2/#Tun%20and%20Tap%20devices -- Cheers, "I never quarrel with a man who buys ink by the barrel." Rick Moen -- Rep. Charles B. Brownson (R-Indiana), ca. 1960 r...@linuxmafia.com McQ! (4x80) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
