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>These appear as Ethernet interfaces normally do on Linux, visible with ip link show. (ifconfig has long been deprecated by the community in favor of the iprout
by voidlogic 12y ago
>These appear as Ethernet interfaces normally do on Linux, visible with ip link show. (ifconfig has long been deprecated by the community in favor of the iproute2 family of tools.)
I am amused when I read things like this, 99% of the Linux savvy folks I know use ifconfig.
- LukeShu 12y agoIn my experience: we use ifconfig out of familiarity; I know that I "should" be using 'ip' (and I do for scripts).
- a3176082 12y agoI don't think you should. Every UNIX operating system has ifconfig. Writing a nonstandard tool instead of fixing the standard one is very antisocial behaviour from the Linux community, mirroring that of Microsoft. Have a look for example at how excellent the ifconfig program for OpenBSD is. These days Linux has become so popular, that it starts to pretend other operating systems and standards are no longer relevant.
- kijiki 12y agoI'm the CTO of Cumulus, and I still sometimes use ifconfig. My fingers are just too programmed at this point. That said, ifconfig doesn't support easy addition of multiple IP addresses to a single interface. You have to create 1 alias interface per IP, which gets unwieldy fast.