[BusyBox] welcome ifconfig and route

[Ray Olszewski]

1. You probably want to include "ifconfig -a" (show *all* interfaces, not
just *configured* interfaces, which is what plain "ifconfig" does). It is a
VERY basic troubleshooting tool. (The lack of an equivalent is probably the
main reason I hate working on systems that use "ip" instead of "ifconfig"
and "route".)

2. I've never found IP addresses in /proc/anything_whatsoever, and I've also
spent some time looking. I have been told that you have to use the
appropriate ioctls to get this info from the kernel.

3. Remember that there are a lot of scripts around set up to parse the
standard output of "ifconfig", awkward as it might be. So varying from the
standard reduces the value of the emulation here, as elsewhere.

At 04:18 PM 2/18/01 +0000, Matthew Franz wrote:
>
>Is anybody (else) working on adding interface printing functionality for
>ifconfig. I starting looking over net-tools to see what should/shouldn't
>be brought over.
>
>input:
>
>ifconfig    # print out all interface
>ifconfig iface # print out that interface
>
>output:
>
>if   hwaddr            ipaddr    netmask         rx      tx
>eth0 00:04:AC:98:D5:68 x.x.x.228 255.255.255.248 2425715 1228478
>
>For what I need the rx tx are pretty irrelevant, but a format like this
>would be snap to parse.
>
>Does anybody have any strong feelings about this or what minimum
>functionaility is required?
>
>Also, is there anywhere in /proc that shows the IP addr? I couldn't find
>anything in 2.2 or 2.4
>


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