On 11/20/2017 10:55 PM, Hendrik Boom 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?
>
> -- hendrik

ifconfig is supplied by net-tools which is no longer installed by default.
If you want ifconfig, route, netstat and a few others, install net-tools.

fsmithred