Re: [PLUG] ip command

["Hugh D. Hyatt" <hugh.hyatt@legend-consulting.net>]

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A quick search gave me the following from stackexchange.com
(bit.ly/QaTgOE). It's the top-rated answer to the question you ask:

"ifconfig is from net-tools, which stopped being developped in '99, though
some distros still patch it internally. It also still uses ioctl for
network configuration, which is an ugly and less powerful way of
interacting with the kernel. A lot of changes in Linux networking code,
and a lot of new features aren't accessible using net-tools: multipath
routing, policy routing (see the RPDB). route allows you to do stupid
things like adding multiple routes to the same destination, with the same
metric. ifconfig doesn't report the proper hardware address for some
devices. You can't configure ipip, sit, gre, l2tp, etc. in-kernel static
tunnels. You can't create tun or tap devices. The way of adding multiple
addresses to a given interface also has poor semantics. You also can't
configure the Linux traffic control system using net-tools either."

At or about 12:41 on Tue, 06 May 2014 Ronaldo Nascimento
<sgtnasty@gmail.com> is alleged to have written:

>Thanks, was wondering the difference
>
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>On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:03 AM, jeff <jeffv@op.net> wrote:
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>> http://linoxide.com/linux-command/use-ip-command-linux/
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>> replaces deprecated ifconfig
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