What happened to ifconfig in RHEL 7?
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In 2009, Red Hat decided to deprecate ifconfig as the default command line network interface management utility, because the "net-tools" package (which provides ifconfig) did not support InfiniBand addresses (commonly used interconnect in high-performance computing applications). InfiniBand addresses were too big for ifconfig to display; therefore, it was...
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