From: jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid   
      
   The Natural Philosopher  writes:   
      
   >> He asked if   
   >> there was something like 'ipconfig'.  I'm glad he didn't ask why it's   
   >> 'ifconfig'. That's been screwing me up for years.   
   >   
   > Because interfaces can be used by other protocols than IP?   
   I've not seen other address families in ifconfig, but iproute2 used to   
   allow configuration of other families outside of IP. They were   
   unceremoniously ripped out long ago. Now you have to use specific tools   
   for those other protocols.   
      
   ipx_interface check br0 802.3   
   IPX Address for (br0, 802.3) is 00000100:AA0004000104.   
      
   dneigh   
   Node                     HWtype  Next-Hop            Flags  MTU        Iface   
   ATR2                     loop    AA:00:04:00:01:04   ---    65533      lo   
   NERGIG                   ether   AA:00:04:00:0F:04   ---    1498   
   br0   
      
      
   As per the other comments, bridging used to be with the bridge-utils   
   tools such as brctl(8). Now that's mostly with the 'ip' tool or 'bridge'   
   (iproute2 again).   
      
   rsync can run without SSH. scp and sftp are still there. 'slogin'   
   disappeared for reasons I've since forgotten. scp is more for one file   
   while rsync is for many.   
      
   egrep and fgrep used to be separate tools. Now you're supposed to use   
   'grep' with switches.   
      
   nft for 'iptables'. No need for 'rdev' and 'rootflags' anymore either.   
   https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix_commands/rootflags.htm for the newbies.   
      
   iw vs iwconfig - iw is much more powerful.   
      
   Of course, systemd has taken over almost everything anyways. Give it a   
   few more years and it will have eaten the shell, too.   
      
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