Interesting - i had no idea that ifconfig and route were considered deprecated - googling did not turn up a lot of information fut I found corroboration with wikipedia and a linux foundation article: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networ...

And the developer page shows no activity in a long while: https://developer.berlios.de/projects/net-tools/

I am a bit embarrassed to know nothing about this as I have blithely been using ipconfig and route over the last few years.

One command that I have been using from the newer suite is ethtools - that is really useful. I like the very detailed interface error counts