On 2019-10-22 15:49, Fred Smith wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:36:54AM -0700, John Pierce wrote: >> The ip commands have been around since Centos 6 if not earlier. you can do >> things with them that you can't do with ifconfig, such as setup policy >> routing rule sets.. > > which makes them harder to learn... > > Unix philosophy: small programs, each of which does one thing well. > But we know it: Linux != UNIX Incidentally, reading new RedHat 8 guide (RedHat "diff 8 7") I've notices quite pleasing thing: they shift toward similarity with some UNIXes, namely: base system, and addons. Valeri -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++