On Tue, 2017-11-21 at 23:50 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
>
> No one is removing ifconfig yet, it's merely not installed by default
> anymore -- so if you insist, just "apt install net-tools".
>
> ifconfig is inadequate for a number of widespread setups, though, and will
> provide bad output without a warning.  You had two decades to migrate --
> this is about the slowest deprecation I've seen, as it has been degraded
> from priority:important to priority:optional only now.

You also have inetutils-ifconfig, from inetutils source, which also works on
other architectures than GNU/Linux.