From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jul 20 7:12:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from sugar.pharlap.com (sugar.pharlap.com [192.107.36.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D1B37B946 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 07:12:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clark@pharlap.com) Received: from clark ([192.107.36.171]) by sugar.pharlap.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.2 release 221 ID# 0-56365U200L2S100V35) with SMTP id com for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:13:54 -0400 From: clark@pharlap.com (Clark Jarvis) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:21:14 -0400 To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000719225647.E75784@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: "ifconfig" == "ifconfig -a" X-Mailer: MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v2.19zg/19zg Message-ID: <20000720141354258.AAA215@sugar.pharlap.com@clark> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In <20000719225647.E75784@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>, on 07/19/00 at 10:56 PM, Ben Smithurst said: >Mike Nowlin wrote: >> Just because Linux does something in a particular way doesn't mean >> that FBSD should. >I'm not suggesting we should! I'm just suggesting adding a note to the >manual page telling people where to look if that's the functionality they >want. "route" may be the logical command for some people to print out the >entire routing table, and the manpage at the moment doesn't even hint on >how to do that as far as I can see. Consider "arp -a". Seems to be a reasonable parallel. -- Clark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message