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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Read here the comments
here:</font><br>
<a
href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20177686/python-parser-for-unix-ip-address-command-iproute2">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20177686/python-parser-for-unix-ip-address-command-iproute2</a><br>
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In particular:<br>
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<i>"One more thing though: Your friends are totally right about
iproute2 being the future. But on many systems, particularly
embedded ones, you're still more likely to encounter the good old
ifconfig, the iproute2 package might not be installed. So if you
want to make your abstraction layer portable, you'll probably have
to account for both. – Lukas Graf"</i><br>
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I think he's right.<br>
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Federico<br>
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