Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:47:38 +0100
From: David Demelier <markand@malikania.fr>
To: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: Proposed change: drop busybox iproute2, always use real iproute2
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 07:29:55AM +0000, Ariadne Conill wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to propose that we drop busybox iproute2, in favor of
> always using real iproute2.
> 
> The primary reasons are:
> 
> - Real iproute2 has significantly advanced by comparison to the
>   busybox implementation.  While the busybox implementation is
>   passable for basic tasks, it is lacking for more advanced
>   tasks.
> - Because of this, many tutorials concerning iproute2 provide
>   advice that is not particularly useful to our default iproute2
>   implementation.
> - Because of that, many people recommend installing real iproute2
>   anyway.

Warning, iproute2 does not work well with openconnect. For example with
iproute2 I'm unable to access my enterprise vpn.

See:

https://gitlab.com/openconnect/vpnc-scripts/-/issues/4

-- 
David