From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jul 18 16:54:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from dune.clickarray.com (mail.puretek.com [216.174.91.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4E5037B82F for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:54:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sshah@dune.clickarray.com) Received: (from sshah@localhost) by dune.clickarray.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA25806; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:53:18 -0700 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:53:18 -0700 From: Steve Shah To: Matthew Hunt Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "ifconfig" == "ifconfig -a" Message-ID: <20000718165318.A25750@clickarray.com> References: <20000718143843.A25290@clickarray.com> <200007182222.AAA14545@guppy.evolunet.com> <20000718161229.A96043@wopr.caltech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <20000718161229.A96043@wopr.caltech.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 04:12:29PM -0700, 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). You're right. OTOH, it's just handy. =) And as I mentioned before, for the many people in the Linux community trying FreeBSD, little things like this make it feel more warm and fuzzy. Just a thought... -Steve (who has finally kicked the habit of typing "route" to see the routing table) -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Steve Shah (sshah@clickarray.com) | Developer/Systems Administrator/Author http://www.clickarray.com | Voice: 408.772.8202 (e-mail preferred) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beating code into submission, one OS at a time... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message