From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jul 18 23:16:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.nimnet.asn.au (nimbin.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.45.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AF6737BCDB for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:16:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (smithi@localhost) by gaia.nimnet.asn.au (8.8.8/8.8.8R1.0) with SMTP id QAA24727; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:15:35 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:15:35 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Matthew Hunt Cc: Renaud Waldura , Steve Shah , archie@whistle.com, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "ifconfig" == "ifconfig -a" In-Reply-To: <20000718161229.A96043@wopr.caltech.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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