On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Toni Mueller <t...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 09:01:51PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:30:26AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>>> Ifconfig has been deprecated; you should probably use "ip a show >>> dev lo" instad of the shorter and more convenient "ifconfig lo" >> >> ... and often wrong > > The BSD ifconfig can do this with ease, and since ages, too. Why is > the Linux ifconfig _so_ different? Forking for the sake of it? Is there any relationship between current ifconfig on Linux and the BSDs, other than the name? I don't think so. The BSDs have continued to develop ifconfig, adding many features and options. > Eg adding an IPv6 address: > # ifconfig em0 inet6 address alias > > and removing it: > # ifconfig em0 inet6 address -alias On Linux, you can do the same with ipv6 ifconfig eth0 inet6 add ipv6_address but for ipv4 you have to label the NIC as an alias ifconfig eth0:0 ipv4_address You can use ip a sh lo (if you have bash-completion installed, "a<tab>" will complete to "addr" and "sh<tab>" will complete to "show") instead of "ip a show dev lo" above (still longer than "ifc<tab> though).
