Re: [bug-inetutils] route

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   Some time ago, Alfred starting working on a "route" command [0].  I
   think we desperately need it now.  :-)

   When building the GNU system image with Guix, I realized we had to
   use Linux net-tools just for that, but net-tools is in a pretty bad
   shape.

   Alternately, perhaps ifconfig could have a "--gateway" option,
   which would address the main use case for "route".

   Thoughts?

On one hand, route is badly needed functionality in inetutils so we
should add that at some point.  On the other, I think that having a
--gateway switch to ifconfig would be very useful as well.  We have a
half baked route already, but it need some love I guess.  For the
ifconfig switch which is simpler in functionality, do you think you
could implement it?  It shouldn't be to hard, and one could probobly
rip apart bits from route.  What do you think?