On 19.08.17 09:26, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 19 August 2017 04:15:42 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > > That is, in fact, what the BSD people did. On FreeBSD and OpenBSD, > > for examples, modern ifconfig has fully functional IPv6 capability, > > with parameters like (to pick just some at random) eui64, prefixlen, > > auto_linklocal, autoconfprivacy, defaultif, and ifdisabled. > > So when do we get that ported and into debian, replacing this gibberish > generator call ip, so we can just get back to doing the things we want > to do with a computer?
Gene, ifconfig is SysV flavoured, so not favoured on the Systemd journey, AIUI. I'll try Devuan on one of my machines when time permits, but FreeBSD has a Linux compatibility layer, allowing it to run Linux binaries, IIUC. It might be worth a try. There are big corporations relying on it on their servers, so it seems pretty solid. It is more SysV flavoured, and Systemd-free. Erik
