iproute2
January 29th, 2012
ifconfig, netstat, and route were apparently deprecated on Linux because they don’t support all the Linux kernel’s fancy networking features. The cool new stuff is called iproute2 and includes some obscure ip command. I realized that after reading a post on Martin’s blog a few days ago.
If you think iproute2 is new, you’re mistaken. It was actually released over 10 years ago, I just happened to not notice that until now. Maybe it’s time to move to BSD like all the other old people and leave Linux to the kids.