[illumos-Developer] making -a default for ifconfig?

[Andre van Eyssen]

On Sun, 29 May 2011, Alasdair Lumsden wrote:

> I'd say the same of "ping -s" being the default. I (and no doubt many 
> others) often use ping as a quick way to simultaneously check if a host 
> is up, and what its IP address is. Knowing whether its alive or not is 
> not terribly useful, -s gives you that + more info.

-1 to the ping idea - Solaris ping has had the same behaviour forever and 
I'm sure I'm not the only one with a "ping foo && blah" habit.

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