how about ifconfig?

[Marcus Brinkmann]

Hi,

I am working on a simple ifconfig for the Hurd, but I try to write it
portable, so it can be used also on Linux and BSD. How about including it in
ineutils, it seems to be the right place, isn't it?

A lot of advanced features of other systems will be missing in early
versions, but so what. Is ifconfig the best name? Are there de-facto
standards in options or output? It's long ago I looked at bsd systems
last time. I don't like the linux ifconfig, it's messy.

Currently:

address@hidden:~/gnu/cvs/i/ifconfig$ ./ifconfig
lo:
  inet address  127.0.0.1
  netmask       255.0.0.0
  flags         UP LOOPBACK RUNNING
  mtu           3904

dummy0:
  inet address  192.168.0.1
  netmask       255.255.255.0
  flags         UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP
  brdaddr       192.168.0.255
  mtu           1500

address@hidden:~/gnu/cvs/i/ifconfig$ ./ifconfig --help
Usage: ifconfig [OPTION] ...
Configure network interfaces.

  -i, --interface NAME Configure network interface NAME
  -a, --address ADDR   Set interface address to ADDR
  -m, --netmask MASK   Set netmask to MASK
      --help           Display this help and exit
  -V, --version        Output version information and exit

Submit bug reports to <address@hidden>.

(this is at a *very* early stage, suggestions are welcome, but nothing too
fancy for now, if you aren't going to do the work :)

Thanks,
Marcus

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