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ifconfig is deprecated in modern Linux. Is it not deprecated in BSD? Does Apple not provide the ip(8) command-line tools?

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/stonking/man8/ip.8.html

No, it seems that iproute2 is Linux-first, or Linux-only: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iproute2

Sad!

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Who says it's deprecated? If it's the same people who think my Ethernet port should be called "enp0s31f6" instead of "eth0", then I'm afraid I do not respect their authority...

The people who maintained it, the kernel developers, the Debian distribution team? You don't accept their authority? I mean, I know this is a MacOS thread, but that's wild.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00780.html

16+ years ago

The maintainers barely touched it since 2001.

Fascinatingly enough, this is Conway's law in action. The Linux kernel doesn't break user space, and ifconfig is on the user space side of that boundary. On BSD, they're organized differently, and went a different way.

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