Use /sbin/ip from iproute2 instead of ifconfig under Linux.

[ilyaevseev]

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[kovacs-andras]

What about /usr/sbin/ip instead of /sbin/ip? Ofc. these two are the same file (hard links) but https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/

[ilyaevseev]

What about /usr/sbin/ip instead of /sbin/ip?

Done.

[randolf]

This doesn't drop support for ifconfig though, I hope. I dislike the "ip" command and use ifconfig extensively on all of my Debian Linux servers, and all of the /etc/network/interfaces magic that comes with it.

[friedrich]

Hi @ilyaevseev - I'm considering merging this, but I'd prefer using just ip instead of /usr/sbin/ip to avoid path issues across distros. Could you update that? Also, the OLD_LINUX fallback is unused - nothing in the build system defines it, so it's dead code. I'd drop it and keep things simple: ip on Linux, ifconfig everywhere else.