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Deprecated Linux Networking Commands and Their Replacements

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Aaron Kili
Jul 16, 2018

Tecmint: In our previous article, we have covered some useful command line networking utilities for Sysadmin’s for network management, troubleshooting and debugging on Linux. We mentioned some networking commands that are still included and supported in many Linux distributions, but are now, in reality, deprecated or obsoleted and therefore should be carry out in favor of more present-day replacements.

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Aaron Kili

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