On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 05:28:17PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat via Dng wrote:
> Peter via Dng <dng@???> writes:
> > https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/install-guides/daedalus/network-configuration
> > mentions package ifupdown and commands iface, ifup and ifdown.
> >
> > Years ago there was advice that ip replaced ifupdown and ifconfig. Is
> > ip avoided in Devuan? Nobody has had an opportunity to update the
> > Configuration Guide?
>
> The 'ip' suite of commands is a Linux-native replacement for the
> low-level BSD-originated network configuration commands (ifconfig,
> route). It's not a replacement for ifupdown commands which configure
> networking based on declarations found in /etc/network/interface and
> files in /etc/network/interfaces.d

I wonder if anyone has thoughts on the following article, which is a
summary of various proposals in Debian to replace ifupdown, which has
maintainability issues:

https://lwn.net/Articles/989055/

Proposed successors are ifupdown2, ifupdown-ng as well as the heavier
options network-manager, systemd-network or netplan.

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sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment."
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