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On 04/19/12 16:40, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Thanks, that's a nice one. But can I expect this command to be available |
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> per default on typical Linux distributions? Some other systems I have |
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> access to have it, but here on Gentoo it belongs to sys-apps/iproute2, |
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> which depends on nothing I have installed, I do not even know why I |
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> emerged it in the first place. So maybe I better use ifconfig which is |
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> always available, although sometimes in /bin and sometimes in /sbin, and |
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> I have to check the output to see which version it is. |
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Gentoo prefers it over net-tools, and a few of the conf files mention |
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that, which explains how it could have wound up installed. |
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(Google says) iproute2 was introduced to replace net-tools around the |
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time of kernel-2.2, and (I says) they're needed to do anything remotely |
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complicated with the networking stack. So, they're probably pretty |
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standard these days. |
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