[wplug] The iproute2 suite are the current networking suite

[Eli Heady]

iproute has been around for quite a long time - since 1999 for the 2.2
kernel - but its predecessors are still commonly used in books and
examples around the net, probably because it is so Linux-specific. I
think net-tools has been one of those things that "just works" -
distro maintainers have been slow to migrate scripts, so users have
not been forced to switch. ifconfig is still used and updated on the
BSD's and AIX; Solaris has already moved away from those old utilities
(though not to iproute).

Since you mentioned CentOS, I thought I'd share my opinion on why you
have not been exposed to the new utilities - RHEL is a very
conservative distro and change comes mighty slowly to its derivatives.
I cut my Linux teeth on Fedora Core 1 and I didn't have to learn about
iproute's tools until I dabbled with younger distros (in terms of
ancestry).

The ip and tc commands are very powerful and appropriate for managing
network configurations in modern networks. It is definitely worthwhile
to become familiar with them, so man ip and man tc!

-eli


On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:34 PM, John Lewis <oflameo2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just found out today while I was studying Centos 6 server
> installations in AQEMU. When I ran man ifconfig the output included
> these lines.
>
> NOTE
>           This program is obsolete! For a replacement check ip addr
> and ip link.
>           For statics use ip -s link.
>
> I also found out that the whole suite called "net-tools" which include
> ifconfig, route, arp, vconfig, iptunnel, ipmaddr, and netstat.
> According to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iproute2 the new
> commands are ip addr, ip link, ip route, ip neigh, ip link, ip tunnel,
> ip maddr and ss.
>
> Did anyone else know about the change to the networking suit? If you
> did know when did you know about it?
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