ip utility [was: Gentoo networking]

[Hans Fugal]

On Thu,  3 May 2007 at 10:06 -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> 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?

See the Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control HOWTO (http://lartc.org), it
gives you lots of information about iproute. iproute itself is also
quite helpful with "online help". If you don't know what comes next,
just type help. e.g. 'ip help' or 'ip route help', etc.

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