ifconfig data interpretation

[Scott Elcomb]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:47 AM, William Muriithi
<william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I have noticed that the ifconfig tool is being deprecated and will be
> replaced by the ip tool. However, so far I have not been able to find
> a way of getting all the information generated by ifconfig from ip
> tool. By that I mean details like packets received, packet sent out,
> collision statistics and sent/receive errors are impossible to get
> from /sbin/ip.  Now, is that a tool limitation or is it me who have
> not done my homework well?

I've only recently begun using ip and haven't done any homework on it
yet; ifconfig's been a friend for a long time though.  On the surface
it seems to me that ip is limited when it comes to describing
connections at-a-glance so I continue to use ifconfig.

Why is ifconfig being deprecated?

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