From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jul 18 16:21:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from auemail2.firewall.lucent.com (auemail2.lucent.com [192.11.223.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A3AC37B5B3 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:21:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gcorcoran@lucent.com) Received: from auemail2.firewall.lucent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by auemail2.firewall.lucent.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA28052 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:21:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mhmail.mh.lucent.com (h135-3-115-8.lucent.com [135.3.115.8]) by auemail2.firewall.lucent.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA28036; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:21:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lucent.com by mhmail.mh.lucent.com (8.8.8+Sun/EMS-1.5 sol2) id TAA02932; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:21:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3974E68A.63E79868@lucent.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:21:46 -0400 From: "Gary T. Corcoran" Organization: Lucent Microelectronics - Client Access Broadband Systems X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Hunt Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "ifconfig" == "ifconfig -a" References: <20000718143843.A25290@clickarray.com> <200007182222.AAA14545@guppy.evolunet.com> <20000718161229.A96043@wopr.caltech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew Hunt wrote: > > 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). Understood, so I won't push for one way or the other. However, I thought it might be useful to note that having spent much time on Windows boxes, where I would type "route print" to see the route table, I sometimes forget and find myself typing "route" or "route print" on my FreeBSD boxes too... ;-) Hmmm.... what about having "route" with no parameters just give a helpful message, something like "To see the current routing table, use the netstat(1) command.". ?? Gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message