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to: Alexey Vissarionov
from: Victor Sudakov
date: 2021-10-16 18:17:00
subject: UFW and he.net

Dear Alexey,

16 Oct 21 00:55, you wrote to Benny Pedersen:

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

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

Using it for viewing (as Benny suggested) is probably safe?

I've seen some Linux distros however where `ifconfig` is even not available unless you install some legacy package. Thank God, BSD is still a Unix-like system.

Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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