-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
Do not script around ifconfig. It has been deprecated - right there in the man page - for almost a decade. In fact, don't script around any utilities at all.
The real problem is something often termed the "QWERTY" effect (after the keyboard layout that was specifically designed to slow keyboard input down because the original mechanical typewriter kept jamming because the operators typed too fast for the mechanism). Something is not adopted (even though it may be better), because the cost of changing to it outweighs the perceived benefits of the change. There is fairly large amount of training material, old scripts etc which would need to modified to remove ifconfig and replace with the ip equivalents and many do not see the point or are unwilling to make the effort to make the changes... (this does not just apply in this case, e.g. there is still a large amount of old Cobol out there still being used for similar reasons). Simplest solution would probably be for someone offer as a project to some masochistic trainee programmer or undergrad the task of writing a script to map between ifconfig and ip. (If nothing else they would learn an awful lot about *NIX networking :-) ). While ip remains poorly documented, and ifconfig is well known the number of things that depend on the latter will tend to increase. - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkrFvpAACgkQasN0sSnLmgI/BgCdHbMt7Y4Iyh7z8agmwhJviMLm tSUAoPE3mArWeiRNwmjzeF2gndYU9euU =YU0c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org