[SGVLUG] Deprecated Linux networking commands and their replacements

[James McDuffie]

There are so many outdated HOWTOs in random blogs that knowing which
commands are deprecated can save you a ton of time. At least for
net-tools they are actually trying to remain somewhat
backward compatible in replicating the old interfaces.



But I can tell you from experience that the bluez package seems to
change their interfaces without any real concern about breaking
anything that depended on the old ways. If you are trying to do
bluetooth stuff and looking at a HOWTO that is even a year and a half
old, your gonna have a bad time.





On Thu, Feb 21, 2013, at 07:30 AM, Lan Dang wrote:

  Took a bit of Googling to get to this discussion on the Debian mailing
  list, where one of the maintainers of net-tools lays out a plan to
  deprecate it in Debian. The hope is that other Linux distros will
  follow.  The discussion is interesting.  Part of the plan is to build
  wrappers to redirect the deprecated commands to the iproute equivalent.

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00780.html

  Lan
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From: Jess Bermudes <jbermudes at gmail.com>;
To: SGVLUG Discussion List. <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>;
Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] Deprecated Linux networking commands and their
replacements
Sent: Thu, Feb 21, 2013 9:09:14 AM
Does anyone know the reason for their deprecation in Linux? It appears
to be actively developed in BSD land, so  I wonder if the Linux version
just had enough code smell to warrant a rewrite or something.


On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Doug <dougvargas at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

  Wow, I had no idea arp and i f/w config were deprecated, good to
  know...now they just need to deprecate WPA_supplicant and come up
  with something designed for the 21st century ;)


James McDuffie <mcduffie at pitfall.org> wrote:
Here's a very concise article listing a bunch of Linux networking
commands that have been deprecated and unmaintained for years as well
as how to use their replacements for the same use cases.
[1]https://dougvitale.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/deprecated-linux-network
ing-commands-and-their-replacements/

References

1. https://dougvitale.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/deprecated-linux-networking-commands-and-their-replacements/
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