Brutkey

Nazo
@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Is it even "old school"? The switch was pretty recent.

I still don't understand why the forced switch though. ifconfig was simpler and clearer. I don't understand why we can't have both available though. It isn't as if either is particularly huge... (Obviously excluding embedded setups like Busybox where every kilobyte counts potentially.)

As others have said, the syntaxes for ip are just confusing.

mathew
@mathew@universeodon.com

@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social The switch happened because ifconfig used an old ioctl interface that no longer supported all necessary functionality, and back in 2009 nobody stepped up to do the work to rewrite ifconfig to use the new netlink API.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00780.html