If you have tool that works and delivers relevant info, why abandon it just write scripts to do what has already been done? Why reinvent the wheel?
Anyhow, I don't want this be a flame war. I only hope 'ifconfig' sticks around for a while. A long while.
I asked earlier if ifconfig uses depricated APIs. Nobody knows, or nobody has answered. If it does, then when the depricated APIs are finally actually removed from the kernel, then ifconfig will break. Why reinvent the wheel? Because the wheel no longer functions. (in this case) If it doesn't use depricated APIs, then there is nothing to stop you from grabbing the source and compiling it yourself once it is removed from the distribution. ifconfig (part of net-tools) hasn't been actively developed since 2001, ip (from iproute2) has been available since the 2.4.x series kernels, so I'd suspect that ifconfig does make use of depricated APIs. So, my suggestion: in your new scripts, make use of the output of ip, and for your old scripts, either update them, or write that translation script that I mentioned earlier. Just trying to help. I'd even actually write it for you if I weren't at work forced to use a winblows box.. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org