On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 08:41:47AM -0400, G. Matthew Rice wrote:
> Keep in mind that some of the LPI affiliates also market these as
> "Unix" certifications.  That said, we are transitioning over to the
> systemd/ip/<insert 7 year old new stuff side in LPIC-1.  I think it'll
> be a long time before the dinosaurs bones are completely buried,
> though.

Trying to be compatible with all the various unices is not very practical.

> Inefficiencies?  How often do you run these commands? :)

Well depends what you are doing.

> > Maybe only people doing embedded work actually care about efficiencies
> > anymore.
> 
> Nah, I think that they just inverted Knuth's opinion on the 97% and 3%
> in efficiency hunting and worry about it 97% of the time. ;)
> 
>     
> http://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/premature-optimization-is-the-root-of-all-evil/

If you have a router with a 533MHz powerpc core and someone configures
250 vlans that you have to bring up at boot, the difference between
/proc and netlink starts to make an enormous difference.  Something like
the difference between booting in 2 minutes versus 45 minutes.

Also if you do snmp and have a lot of interfaces to get data for,
netlink really helps a lot too.

Also the ip command has much nicer syntax and supports stuff ifconfig
does not (or at least didn't for a long time, like multiple IPs on
an interface).

-- 
Len Sorensen
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