[ale] eth numbering change

[slitt at troubleshooters.com (Steve Litt)]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:08:46 -0500
DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> On 02/12/2017 12:23 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> >  "ip link" and "ip addr"   
> 
> Sounds like some sort of new fangled commands that we don't need.
> My dad used ifconfig so it is good enough for me.

My grandfather was born in Chicago in 1886, and he still votes several
times in each mayoral election. But ifconfig is deprecated and will
sooner or later disappear. The ip commands are tricky, underdocumented
and hard to learn, but they work very, very well once you get them
right.

I can confirm that the shellscript I wrote about works with ip link and
ip addr, because that's what I used. I would assume that someone good
at ifconfig (and I was never any good at it) could do the same thing
with ifconfig.

 
SteveT

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