ifconfig is on the PATH by default for FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and OpenSolaris... to me it was always rather irritating that wasn't the case in Linux when I needed to find out the IP address of a machine.
I really don't understand why there is a need to throw out a perfectly good tool to replace it with something that is completely different and requires re-learning, and re-writing of scripts that are already using ifconfig.
I really don't understand why there is a need to throw out a perfectly good tool to replace it with something that is completely different and requires re-learning, and re-writing of scripts that are already using ifconfig.