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<body><div>There are so many outdated HOWTOs in random blogs that knowing which commands are deprecated can save you a ton of time.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.<br></div>
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<div>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.<br></div>
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<div>On Thu, Feb 21, 2013, at 07:30 AM, Lan Dang wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote class="QuoteMessage" type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><p>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.<br></p><p>http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00780.html<br></p><p>Lan<br></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div id="_origMsg_"><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif:font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span class="font" style="font-family:Tahoma"><span class="size" style="font-size:small"><hr size="1"><b><b>From:</b></b>
Jess Bermudes <jbermudes@gmail.com>; </span></span><br></div>
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SGVLUG Discussion List. <sgvlug@sgvlug.net>; </span></span><br></div>
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Re: [SGVLUG] Deprecated Linux networking commands and their replacements </span></span><br></div>
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<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit;"><div dir="ltr">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.<br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Doug <span dir="ltr"><<a target="_blank">dougvargas@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">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 ;)<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> </div>
<div class="h5">James McDuffie <<a target="_blank">mcduffie@pitfall.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
<div class="h5">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. <br></div>
<div class="h5"><a target="_blank" href="https://dougvitale.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/deprecated-linux-networking-commands-and-their-replacements/">https://dougvitale.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/deprecated-linux-networking-commands-and-their-replacements/</a><br></div>
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