[wplug] The iproute2 suite are the current networking suite

[John Lewis]

But, what I don't understand is why Ubuntu, Debian, My college
professors at PTI and the Unix Academy didn't tell me to use the new
network configuration commands and only Centos did.

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Eli Heady <eli.heady at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>