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Date:      Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:53:18 -0700
From:      Steve Shah <sshah@clickarray.com>
To:        Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "ifconfig" == "ifconfig -a"
Message-ID:  <20000718165318.A25750@clickarray.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000718161229.A96043@wopr.caltech.edu>
References:  <20000718143843.A25290@clickarray.com> <200007182222.AAA14545@guppy.evolunet.com> <20000718161229.A96043@wopr.caltech.edu>

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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)

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