Quoting Harald Arnesen (skogtun@???):

> Why, oh why replace well-known, portable commands with Linux-only
> commands that are no better?

At your convenience look up how many years the net-tools codebase has
been orphaned. Can't remember, but it's many.[1] There is also
functionality supported in the iproute2 tools but not in the net-tools
old-standard ones.

Isn't this a revival of a discussion that's been done to death?

[1] Looked it up for you: 2001.