Linux — ip command

Why you should start switching to ip command

Tony
Geek Culture
Published in
4 min readSep 21, 2022

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In older Linux distributions, ifconfig and route commands were used to connect a computer to a network, and to define routes between networks.

Many Linux distributions have deprecated the use of ifconfig and route in favor of the software suite iproute2, such as ArchLinux or RHEL since version 7, which has been available since 1999…

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