From owner-freebsd-net Wed Jul 19 3:58:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from d12lmsgate.de.ibm.com (d12lmsgate.de.ibm.com [195.212.91.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6207637B9AC for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 03:58:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DRHAGER@de.ibm.com) Received: from d12relay01.de.ibm.com (d12relay01.de.ibm.com [9.165.215.22]) by d12lmsgate.de.ibm.com (1.0.0) with ESMTP id MAA290174; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:58:01 +0200 From: DRHAGER@de.ibm.com Received: from d12mta01.de.ibm.com (d12mta01_cs0 [9.165.222.237]) by d12relay01.de.ibm.com (8.8.8m3/NCO v2.07) with SMTP id MAA255214; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:58:02 +0200 Received: by d12mta01.de.ibm.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.5 (863.2 5-20-1999)) id C1256921.003C3901 ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:57:47 +0200 X-Lotus-FromDomain: IBMDE To: "Chris J. Mutter" Cc: ras@e-gerbil.net (Richard A. Steenbergen), gcorcoran@lucent.com, mph@astro.caltech.edu, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:57:40 +0200 Subject: Re: "ifconfig" == "ifconfig -a" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> >> I cast my vote for a "route print". > >[x] against NT-ish "route print" There is another issue involved, I believe: netstat is for everyone to have a look - you cant change anything. route is for root to change things vital to the system. To me it makes sense to distinguish. Nontheless I would prefer consistency: mount => all mounts ifconfig => all interfaces route => all routes who => all users logged on etc. --orm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message