<sarcasm> Great. You've got a new tool with incompatible options that will require rewriting network scripts worldwide. </sarcasm> Can you provide a good TECHNI

<sarcasm> Great. You've got a new tool with incompatible options that will require rewriting network scripts worldwide. </sarcasm> Can you provide a good TECHNICAL reason why ifconfig fails to perform the task it performs every day? Would it have been too hard of a design task to make ip's command line compatible with ifconfig?