On Tue 15 Aug 2017 at 13:24:56 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 10:48:12 Nicolas George wrote: > > > L'octidi 28 thermidor, an CCXXV, Erik Christiansen a écrit : > > > Around 30 years of familiarity across many *nix flavours. > > > > You said it: the only superiority of ifconfig over iproute2 is > > tradition and familiarity of long-time users. On the other hand, > > ifconfig is technically inferior on most if not all points. > > > > I hope you realize that traditions and familiarity of old geezers can > > only go so far to justify the evolution or non-evolution of a system. > > Otherwise, we still would have ed in the base system. > > > > Regards, > > Nicolas: The nearest ipv6 address to me is likely 150 miles north, in > Pittsburgh PA. Its all ipv4 here in WV AFAIK.
Odd, the nearest to me is underneath the table. I use 6 a lot, as a cat5 cable is much faster than two legs of weak wireless to the router and back. And it requires no configuration—it's just there. Cheers, David.
