On Wednesday 10 of June 2015 05:02:36 Carlos E. R. wrote:
But are they broken? As far as I know, they work.
Depends on your definition of "broken". From the top of my head, I have recently seen: - ifconfig silently truncating interface names - netstat unable to cope with socket inode numbers >= 2^32 - hostname -f and -i broken if hostname has only an IPv6 address The, of course, the well known (but largely ignored) fact that ifconfig syntax and semantics is based on model abandoned in kernel 2.1 and poorly emulated since. In a similar fashion, route can see and handle only small part of the routing configuration. And, perhaps most funny, rarp has absolutely no chance of working since the kernel RARP code was dropped in 2.3.
If they are still available as an extra, non default package, we can install and use it. Not being a default package, things that miss the tools will be corrected, and we can adapt our local scripts with time.
While I believe most of net-tools should have been gone long ago, just dropping it out of the blue would be too harsh and too disruptive. On the other hand, it should no longer be included in the default installation or standard patterns. Michal Kubeček -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org