On Tuesday 29 September 2009 04:10:12 pm John Andersen wrote:
Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
On 29/09/09 16:42, phanisvara das wrote:
please excuse my ignorance, but why? i'm quite happy with it: finding out what's going on with my network configuration, shutting up & down devices. what's wrong with that?
It will go away at some point in the future, is deprecated.
Far too many information gathering routines use the output of ifconfig for it to be deprecated, especially since the ability to grab the same info in the same format can't be found easily (if at all) in ip.
...at least for wireless connections ip + iwconfig with give the same info. But then again if iwconfig is related to ifconfig, it will probably go away too. But you have hit upon a great point. Think of all the things from plasma widgets to superkaramba themes to just about every network related package that currently uses ifconfig. That is a whole lot of recoding if ifconfig goes away. Perhaps it is just the activation functionality that will go away and the information will remain. "ifconfig eth0 up" may be gone, but if "ifconfig" stays to provide the information, then I think all would be well. Christian, do you have a link to a write up on this issue? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org