From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jul 18 16:12:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.102.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DEF737BBDE for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:12:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA96188; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:12:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:12:29 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: Renaud Waldura Cc: Steve Shah , archie@whistle.com, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "ifconfig" == "ifconfig -a" Message-ID: <20000718161229.A96043@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <20000718143843.A25290@clickarray.com> <200007182222.AAA14545@guppy.evolunet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200007182222.AAA14545@guppy.evolunet.com>; from renaud@guppy.evolunet.com on Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:22:16AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:22:16AM +0200, Renaud Waldura wrote: > > > > ifconfig == ifconfig -a > > > > 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). -- Matthew Hunt * UNIX is a lever for the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message