ip utility [was: Gentoo networking]

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:13:33AM -0600, Nicholas Leippe wrote:

> Might I suggest in all of this that you begin to learn the new tools?
> emerge iproute2 and use the 'ip' command. ifconfig is deprecated and has not 
> supported all of the features of the Linux networking stack since the 2.4 
> kernels. It's embarrassing IMO that most distros still ship with ifconfig as 
> the default.

I'd have learned about it had I known about it. ip must be one of the
better kept secrets of Linux. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

The man page is a bit obtuse; can you recommend a write-up more
oriented to those who are new to the program?

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