Bug#254243: (no subject)

Luar Roji cyberplant at roji.net
Mon Oct 20 19:46:44 UTC 2008


I think we have to fix it soon, some way or another.. 

I would preffer to keep the actual behaviour so no scripts are harmed. But
it's real that we don't want to have to add a new command line flag always
from now! 

Now, another fact is that netstat was always tabular, and I think we are used
to see it this way.. 

Maybe (only maybe!) we can make a NEW version of netstat, and show a warning
when chopping is happening, so we don't break actual scripts, and in the new
version we can do what we want without being afraid, what do you think? In
the future we can rename the old netstat, and use the new as the original..

netstat-ng? 

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 01:12:33PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> martin f krafft wrote:
>> also sprach Olaf van der Spek <Olaf at XWIS.Net> [2008.10.20.1259 +0200]:
>>> Address                  HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask    Iface
>>> 192.168.1.34             ether   00:17:31:64:23:c5   C    eth0
>>> 192.168.1.254            ether   00:19:cb:43:af:b7   C    eth0
>>>
>>> This looks pretty tabular to me.
>>
>> Ha! I forgot! I have arp aliased to arp -a:
>>
>>   -a     Use alternate BSD style output format (with no fixed columns).
>
> Hehe. I really don't think that's good for netstat. Too many columns and  
> too many rows.
>
> But as machine readable format, it's the best way I think.





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