Re:There are real reasons for Linux to replace ifconfig, net...
by erikb on Friday May 25, 2018 @01:30PM
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Not sure why you think I would disagree. I'd say that is exactly my opinion, so I wanted to share that googlable term with the other frustated people out there.
Re:There are real reasons for Linux to replace ifconfig, net...
by da_chicken on Saturday May 26, 2018 @01:26AM
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I don't think you'd disagree. I just think, "Well, you could search for iproute2," isn't that helpful because it's not that obvious that that is the package name.
The point is that searching for "ifconfig tutorial" is going to give you what you want, while "ip route" is probably going to get you Cisco documentation, honestly. Even something like "parse ip output" is going to give you a mix of results from Linux, Windows, or web services while "parse ifconfig output" is a lot more clear.
"ip" is simply a saturated keyword, making it a bad keyword.