On Aug 17, 2023, at 14:27, J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote:
On Mon, August 14, 2023 21:10, Berry van Sleeuwen wrote:
We recently migrated our server to SLES15 SP4 and found there are a few network tools missing in the base, arp, netstat, ifconfig and route are supposed to be replaced by "ip" and "ss" command. While similar the output of these commands differs from the traditional tools so I guess that would interfere with the processing of the command output. For now it's solved by installing net-tools-deprecated but this might not be available in future versions so we might need support for these commands. I don't now if that is also the direction for other distributions, but it's at least the case for Suse and OpenSuse.
Agreed; it's similar in the RHEL side. xymond_client updates that can interpret the output of ip and ss are probably called for now. While deprecated net-tools will stick around for sure for current systems, it's only a matter of time until they're removed, and in the meantime it's one less package to have to pull in for compatibility (and to explain).
Slash harass people to stop writing new code for/create dependencies on in 2022/2023. :-P
This probably goes higher on the list.
100% agreed.
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