From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jul 18 16:26:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from overlord.e-gerbil.net (e-gerbil.net [207.91.110.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A7437BA76 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:26:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ras@e-gerbil.net) Received: from localhost (ras@localhost) by overlord.e-gerbil.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA00583; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:26:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ras@e-gerbil.net) X-Authentication-Warning: overlord.e-gerbil.net: ras owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:26:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard A. Steenbergen" To: "Gary T. Corcoran" Cc: Matthew Hunt , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "ifconfig" == "ifconfig -a" In-Reply-To: <3974E68A.63E79868@lucent.com> 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, Gary T. Corcoran wrote: > 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.". ?? If nothing else, it is in no way intuitive that "route" says nothing about how to view the current routing table. This is one of the most common new FreeBSD user questions I hear. At a minimium, something should be hinted at in the man page. -- Richard A Steenbergen http://www.e-gerbil.net/humble PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message