http://www.osnews.com/story/21467/Knee_Deep_in_UNIX_Network_Analysis Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:29:53 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?362924 http://osnews.com/thread?362924 If you've ever wondered why when you've typed 'ifconfig' recently you don't get all of your IP addresses for an interface up amongst other things that is because it has been largely unmaintained and deprecated by 'ip'. To do that you would do 'ip addr show'.

'ip' is a bit of a Swiss army knife of a network command and an up to date overview of that would have been better. Mon, 11 May 2009 23:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (segedunum) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?362978 http://osnews.com/thread?362978 The article is about Unix networking in general, not Linux networking. ifconfig is in no way unmaintained and deprecated on non-Linux *nix platforms. Tue, 12 May 2009 09:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?363054 http://osnews.com/thread?363054 The article is clearly split into sections that are Linux specific and implementations on other systems such as Mac OS and Solaris. I did think people might be wise enough to figure all that out, but obviously not. Tue, 12 May 2009 15:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (segedunum) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?363099 http://osnews.com/thread?363099 Ah, then it would be pertinent to mention "ip" in that secton. Tue, 12 May 2009 18:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments