#12168 LOW Not Tri: olpc-connections/-log/-netstatus commands use ifconfig (depreciated)

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#12168: olpc-connections/-log/-netstatus commands use ifconfig (depreciated)
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 Reporter:  greenfeld      |                 Owner:  mstone       
     Type:  defect         |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  low            |             Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  olpc-netutils  |               Version:  not specified
 Keywords:                 |           Next_action:  diagnose     
 Verified:  0              |   Deployment_affected:               
Blockedby:                 |              Blocking:               
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 The olpc-connections, olpc-log, and olpc-netstatus scripts use ifconfig,
 which supposedly is depreciated in favor of the "ip" command in Linux.

 I do not know if/when the ifconfig command may disappear (various BSD's
 still maintain it and do not include ip/iw) but we should move to a
 currently supported approach (iw in particular warns against
 screenscraping it due to an unstable interface).

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12168>
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