Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client
by digi_owl on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @04:36PM
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"just". Ifconfig gets the job done, unless RH has been odd selves again...
As for devs, Torvalds didn't have much love for the ip command last time i looked into things. And a year or so back i ran into a Ts'o posting about his dislike for polkit (a close cousin of systemd).
When it's not something you want, it's to "Placate people". But if it was something you wanted, i'm sure it would be a welcome feature!
And it's not that complicated, just different.
Want a "traditional" list of interfaces? `ip addr`
Want to list running interfaces? `ip link ls up`
Want to set a device up/down? `ip link set dev {DEVICE} {up|down}`
Quick question! How do you set the MTU length in a legacy REHL system? Because with ip it's just `ip link set mtu 9000 dev eth0`!
Yeah, its new and will require some learning, but it's not inherently bad...
And talking about seasoned kernel devs, name one time that there wasn't a minority of kernel devs bitching about a new feature! Every change is going to make some people worse off.