Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:15:35 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> Cc: Renaud Waldura <renaud@waldura.org>, Steve Shah <sshah@clickarray.com>, archie@whistle.com, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "ifconfig" == "ifconfig -a" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000719161200.24310C-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20000718161229.A96043@wopr.caltech.edu>
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:22:16AM +0200, Renaud Waldura wrote: > > > > > > ifconfig == ifconfig -a Why not. There's always 'man ifconfig' if you want to see syntax. > > > And making route with no parameters print the routing table would be > > > doubly nice. > > > > I will second that. I see both as nice, practical additions that can > > only contribute to make FreeBSD easier to use. > > I have no objection to making ifconfig == ifconfig -a, but it > is not currently the job of route(8) to display the route table. > Making it do so would duplicate functionality that's in netstat(1). Agreed. And we sure don't want 'netstat' == 'netstat -a' :-) Cheers, Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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