Good ${greeting_time}, Benny!

15 Oct 2021 09:43:24, you wrote to me:

 BP>>> ifconfig
 AV>> Don't use this command for any purpose. Never.
 BP> i like to know why ?

It uses deprecated API and may leave the kernel network stack in a really unpredictable state.

I guess you are using iptables instead of ipchains and ipfwadm. Or... ?


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