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Authored by: peragrin on Jan 21, '05 03:43:07PM

Evedience of ifconfig usefulness is of all people MSFT.

Windows until 2000 had winIPcfg a gui program. win2k, win xp, win2k3, etc includes a commandline program called ipconfig. It works very similar to ifconfig.

Also note that Longtooth is supposed to include a proper commandline and shell called MSH. If command line programs are legacy then why is MSFT just now impleneting it as a feature.

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Authored by: kchrist on Jan 22, '05 11:25:30AM
Not to get too far off topic here, but ipconfig has been around forever. It's been around at least as long as Windows NT 3.5, which was released in 1994, and I'm pretty sure it existed before that in Windows for Workgroups/DOS.

Anyway, it can't really be compared to ifconfig on Unix, as you can't use it to actually do anything other than release/renew DHCP leases. It's mostly just for displaying network information, where ifconfig does all the real work of modifying interface configuration (hence the name!).

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