On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:55:36 -0500
Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 05:53:49PM +0100, Jaromil wrote:
> >
> > nono, as I wrote: that script doesn't works anymore, if ran on a
> > freshly debootstrapped version of Debian 9. It seemed that rc.local
> > wasn't executed anymore. But there is some confusion, since both
> > brctl and ifconfig are legitimately deprecated. Assuming you have
> > done better checking, then the failure may be caused by them
> > bailing out.
>
> ifconfig is deprecated? What is to be used instead?

A program called ip. It has commands such as ip route, ip addr, ip
link, and several others. It's confusing and underdocumented, but so is
ifconfig (which I never even began to master).

I've been using ip for about 2 years now: Starting when I wrote the
Manjaro Experiments.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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