On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Alexandru Juncu <alex.ju...@rosedu.org> wrote:
> Without trying to start a flame on this topic, I was curious about the
> LPI's official view on this. Why wasn't iproute2 introduced, is there
> a plan to introduce it in the future? Because many people consider
> ifconfig an old and out dated tool. I know many people still use it,
> but for legacy reasons.
Hey, Alexandru.
It may be old and outdated but I just did a 'strings /sbin/ifup' (just
anecdotal, of course) on my laptop's distro which was released this
year and I got this (I checked the output for false positives, too):
matt@swit:/etc/init.d$ strings /sbin/ifup |egrep
'(route|netstat|ifconfig|ip )' |wc
21 139 952
matt@swit:/etc/init.d$ strings /sbin/ifup |egrep '(route|netstat|ifconfig)' |wc
17 110 769
Again, this isn't meant to be numerical or empirical evidence of
anything. I'm just pointing out that a core utility used to start
networking on my desktop makes more reference to the 'out dated' tools
than the new one. And LPI, IMO, is about testing what's out there and
not an ideal standard (which is also a moving target) which no one has
on their systems.
In the morning, I think I'll try uninstalling the net-tools package
and see what happens. :)
> I searched the mailing archives for a similar thread but did not find
> anything. I hope I haven't missed anything.
If you ask this on the lpi-examdev list:
http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
you'll probably get lots of reasons for both sides.
>From my perspective, you can do all the basic routing with
ifconfig/route/netstat, those commands are universal to all *nixes
(yeah, they're still out there and it isn't the windows guys that'll
be asked to maintain them) ;) and ip is a huge can of worms for people
that aren't going there.
That said, it's worth bringing up on the examdev list.
Regards,
--
G. Matthew Rice <mr...@lpi.org> gpg id: EF9AAD20
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