only one ping from router

[Nils Kassube]

Tom H wrote:
> It's better to use "ip a" (short of "ip address show") because
> "ifconfig" is obsolete.

Do you have a reference for that allegation? It seems that Ubuntu 
doesn't know about it - this is from a 13.04 machine:

$ grep -r ifconfig /etc/init /etc/init.d
/etc/init/network-interface.conf:       ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up || true
$ grep -r 'ip ' /etc/init /etc/init.d
$ 

Granted, this is not necessarily an exhaustive research but I also 
briefly tried to find something with the help of $SEARCH_ENGINE. Indeed 
there was a two year old page claiming that "On Linux ifconfig is 
obsolete" with a reference to "man ifconfig". However if I run "man 
ifconfig" on a 13.04 machine, it isn't mentioned that ifconfig is 
obsolete.

Could it be that this is similar to the claim thet aptitude will replace 
apt-get while the desktop version of Ubuntu doesn't even install 
aptitude by default?


Nils